Author: David Woodhouse Date: To: Mike Richardson CC: James P. Roberts, exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] local_scan(), content-scanning, multiple recipients and
bounces
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 10:10, Mike Richardson wrote: > I have to say that this is getting silly (no offence meant, its an
> interesting approach.) If its so important to have users who can
> opt-in or -out of spam scanning then why not simply just give them
> the desktop tools and some training? The effort, cost and inconvenience
> of the two approaches are probably comparable.
>
> To me mailhubs are there to process mail as quickly and efficiently
> as possible for the entire site. Per user settings and heavy duty
> content filtering should be handled by an MDA - exim can do this of
> course with user filters etc - not the MTA. I fear that coming up with
> clever technical solutions to a problem which isn't that well defined
> just creates more problems e.g congestion on hubs.
I agree to a large extent. However, the reason we do spam-blocking at
SMTP receive time is to avoid being lumbered with the requirement to
bounce the message, given a probably unreachable return address.
