On 19/07/2007 15:13, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> On Thursday 19 July 2007 15:54, Marc Sherman wrote:
>> There's a handful of different things you can do with spam once you've
>> identified it; some are better than others. Exim can be configured to
>> implement all of them, so you have to decide which you want to do
>> according to your own local policy:
>> [...]
>
> One more:
>
> - Reject the spam in the SMTP conversation, but deliver it to the quarantine
> as well (fakereject). This may be an option in the range between "almost
> certainly spam" (i.e. really reject) and "maybe spam" (mark and deliver or
> quarantine). But it may also be completely useless as you get more junk in
> the quarantine while the sender is confused (either the rejection message
> says the mail was quarantine - will it be read or not, and when? - or it
> doesn't mention it - then the sender is surprised when a reply arrives while
> he is trying to resubmit the message.
I fakereject as follows:
control = fakereject/Classified as spam (score $SPAM_WORST_SCORE)
but delivered anyway to the recipient's junk mail folder (so they may
never see it). If you are sure this is a mistake, please email
postmaster@ the recipient's domain.
So far (in the last month since I started doing this) only one complaint
to the postmaster (me). I'd turned up some image spam tests too high,
and they didn't like Incredimail's footer with a dancing panda. Frankly
I don't like Incredimail's footer with a dancing panda either, but I
moderated the scores and further Incredimail messages passed with no
noticeable increase in image spam being accepted.
Cheers,
John.
