On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:53:21 -0800, Evan Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At 12:49 PM 1/3/2005, you wrote: >>I know that it's generally frowned upon to actually "block" SPAMs (as >>opposed to marking them as SPAM and letting the user decide) but my >>company has some instances where we get things that are blatantly, >>absolutely, unequivocally SPAM (think scores in excess of 100 points >>without BAYES or any white/blacklisting) and I wonder if there is a way >>I can configure SpamAssassin to actually block (as in, return a 550 SMTP >>error code) SPAMs that exceed some ludicrous SPAM score? Does such an >>option exist? If not, might it be useful for the community at large? > > >No. Spamassassin cannot do any blocking or rejecting. > >Spamassassin is only a filter. > >You can probably configure your MUA via procmail or another method to >'reject' spam (bad idea), but SA cannot. > We use qmail and qmail-scanner with Spamassassin. The spam flag is set to Y at 5. If the score is greater than 10, qmail-scanner summarily deletes the message. -- Steve
