Re: [exim] Reducing load vs seeing all the spam

On 6/4/05 5:02 PM, "Wakko Warner" <wakko@???> wrote:

> Chris Edwards wrote:
>> OK - so only block the *spam* addressed to postmaster - avoid blocking the
>> other messages ;-)
>>
>> When blocking, give an unfiltered support address in the 5xx response.
>> This doesn't have to be "postmaster".
>>
>> These days, our postmaster mailbox is deluged with spam. Before long
>> there won't be any time for sleeping and/or eating - we'll be here 24x7
>> just deleting the spam.
>
> Quite curious. How many postmasters actually respond to spam? Could it be
> spammers are pissed at postmasters or know they are supposed to accept the
> email? Being that I run my own server and it's for 1 user, I don't treat
> postmaster specially. If I ran a larger system, it would be different
> (however, I still wouldn't accept email from korea! =)

I've never understood why spammers send to postmaster...the one address most
likely to reach a person who will do something to keep their mail out of the
rest of the system (even if that is passing it along to a guru).
(Greylisting helps that...postmaster messages here bypass that, giving me
some time to check whether the other controls are blocking it for the real
people (the clients).)

If I happen to see it in time.

--John