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Re: [somewhat OT] Spamassassin and bouncing v. tagging



On 4/6/2005 6:25 PM +0100, Joshua Nichols wrote:
I use spamassassin with spamc/spamd and QMAILQUEUE.

The system has been working marvelously at tagging incoming spam--so
much so that I'm ready to start bouncing it.  How would I instruct spamc
to bounce the message instead of simply tagging it?

Bouncing spam is a very bad idea, and here's why: Spammers always forge the envelope sender address, and the From: header. So if you bounce spam, an innocent person receives your bounce.

A better solution would be to just discard/delete/move to spam maildir high scoring spam.

Regards,

Niek
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