On Monday, May 24, 2004, 2:00:49 PM, Scott Dortch wrote:
> I am rather new to linux/postfix/spamassassin so I apologize in advance if 
> this 
> has been covered.  I looked through the archives and could not find anything.

> A few months ago I successfully installed postfix my MYSQL support and 
> multiple 
> domains on linux.  Then after I felt confortable that all was well, I 
> installed 
> spamassassin.  It has been tagging email messages as (fairly well) for some 
> time now.  

> What I would like to see happen is for the messages that are tagged as spam 
> to 
> be rejected back to the original sender similar to the way postfix does when 
> checking header and body content.  

Are you sure you want to do this?  Don't most spams have fake
return addresses?  Wouldn't that result in a lot of false
delivery failure messages to the forged sending addresses?

> An acceptable alternative would be to have all mail that is tagged as spam 
> forwarded to another (maybe spamtrap for example) that holds messages for a 
> certain time period (perhaps 7 days) then deletes them.  

> Is this even possible?  Where do I go to learn?

Yes, that's routinely done, but it's a function of the Mail
Delivery Agent, not SpamAssassin.  Perhaps the SA wiki describes
this further.

Jeff C.
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