postfix mail filtering with amavisd-milter - works!

Patrick Ben Koetter p at sys4.de
Fri Feb 1 21:42:29 CET 2013


* Jo Rhett <jrhett at netconsonance.com>:
> On Jan 30, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> > Agreed. I will expand the documentation as my time permits. There's good
> > reason to keep both approaches. Some countries don't see the need to do
> > pre-queue filtering; they have different ideas of a good [TM] content filter
> > policy.
> 
> 
> You have three choices:
> 
> 1. Backscatter bounced spam to (probably forged) senders
> 2. Don't tell senders that you discarded their e-mail
> 3. Reject during the SMTP session so the sender can be aware
> 
> Normally, I'm a huge fan of "whatever works for you" but in this case there
> is no alternative. #1 and #2 are WRONG. #3 is only way to function well on
> the Internet. 

You know it. I know it. ;)

p at rick

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