On 8 Jul 2011, at 17:08, Bill Hayles wrote:
> Hi, Ian
>
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 15:29:00 +0000 in message number <480139F4-4E0B-4BF6-B69F-7AFA88BA3BE0@???>, received here on 08/07/2011 17:52:29, Ian Eiloart <iane@???> said:
>
>>
>> On 7 Jul 2011, at 14:31, Bill Hayles wrote:
>>
>>>> But why not give users the tools to set up spam filters on the server,
>>>> where smtp time rejection is an option.
>>>
>>> The honest answer is that I don't know how to - only to apply such filters
>>> on a global scale. Something I need to look into.
>>
>> We use a web application to write various options into our LDAP directory.
>> There is one eternal problem: once you've seen the data, you can't do
>> individual filtering if there's more than one recipient.
>
> Not something simple, then, given that I'm not running a LDAP server.
I guess, but a flat file would do just as well. We prefer the LDAP server because it -and our mail server- is clustered.
> At the moment, I have more than adequate resources to let users deal with
> spam after I've accepted it. I take on board the comments about that only
> encouraging the spammers, and I certainly accept that user bouncing is a bad
> idea; I'll check that nobody is doing it.
>
> Nevertheless, thanks for taking the time and trouble to reply; I appreciate
> it.
>
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>
> Bill Hayles
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