On 01/17/2011 10:22 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote: > * JKL <ju...@klunky.co.uk>: >> On 01/17/2011 09:29 PM, Michael Scheidell wrote: >>> On 1/17/11 3:27 PM, JKL wrote: >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> Why would this be delivered into the user mailbox when the Sender >>>> address is blacklisted by the user? Did I misunderstand the >>>> short-circuit effect? >>>> >>>> Best wishes. >>>> >>>> >>> spamassassin doesn't do anything about delivery. it just marks the >>> headers. >>> >>> >> Hi, >> >> Thank-you for pointing this out. Naïvely, I thought I could use >> Postfix to pass the mail to spamc and then have it drop it, instead of >> sending it onto Dovecot LDA for delivery. Clearly, this is not the way >> :( Back to the drawing board. >> >> I know this is off-topic but is there a way for a third party programme >> to silently drop spam from delivery? > There are several: MimeDefang, Spamassassin-Milter and amavisd-new come to > mind. > > MimeDefang and Spamassassin-Milter work as MILTERS (see: smtpd_milters or > MILTER_README in Postfix). > > amavisd-new may be integrated either as MILTER or as content_filter or > smtpd_proxy_filter using either SMTP or LMTP. You probably want amavisd-new if > you also want a content filter to identify and classify other mail content > categories (virus, banned, spam, undecipherable and, surprise, clean > messages) <http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/README.postfix.html> > > p@rick > Thank-you for the suggestions.
I have Dovecot LDA so Sieve might well be a good idea, but I would like to inform the sender that the Email was dropped as spam, and avoid backscatter. I don't think I can do this with Sieve/Dovecot LDA. Is MIMEDefang resource hungary, especially when used as a before queue milter with Postfix?
