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Timothy Alberts Re: [CentOS] Re: Rejecting spam
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Scott Silva wrote:
> on 3-4-2008 12:32 PM Tim Alberts spake the following:
>> That's exactly what I don't want to do. I don't want the mail being
>> delivered to my system. That's why I'm using the milter. However
>> the milter is doing the exact same thing as delivering it when it is
>> marked as spam. That's what I am hoping to get some help with.
> Looking at the docs, spamass-milter doesn't do any rejecting. I
> believe you can do it with mimedefang, but you will have to go through
> their docs to figure it out.
>

OK, that's what I was suspicious of.

I've been reading the sendmail docs for header tests thinking I can
write something in sendmail that will look for the X-Spam-flag header
and reject based on that.  Anyone try that yet?

http://www.sendmail.org/m4/anti_spam.html#header_checks

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Thread : Rejecting spam
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Timothy Alberts Sorry, not a direct CentOS question, but I know there's a lot of experienced users on this...
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Glenn Not sure, but I think you could use procmail to filter to a junk folder based upon parsing the...
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Milton Calnek mailscanner +1 Also, I have: FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org', `"571 ACCESS DENIED to...
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Les Mikesell MimeDefang is good too, and perhaps a little more efficient. It and clamav (if you want to tie in a...
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Timothy Alberts I also use all the dnsbl above plus spamcop.net which, I believe blocks far more spam than anything...
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Timothy Alberts That's exactly what I don't want to do. I don't want the mail being delivered to my system. That's...
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John Hinton The spamhaus RBLs are the most reliable in my opinion. They will kill about 60% of the spam and...
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Timothy Alberts BINGO That's exactly what I'm trying to do with spamass-milter. However it either won't do it, or...
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John Hinton It's how the milter is started. This is my slightly edited spamass-milter init.d file....
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John Hinton Oops! I knew there was another place to do this. In /etc/sysconfig/spamass-milter Here's my config...
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Timothy Alberts John that is perfect, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you and thanks to everyone that...
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John Hinton Does any 'man'? I normally start to get really worried about myself when I actually understand one...
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Scott Silva This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --============== 63084107=Content-Type:...
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Timothy Alberts OK, that's what I was suspicious of. I've been reading the sendmail docs for header tests thinking...
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Scott Silva This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --==============99469262=Content-Type:...
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Dan Carl Not really a good idea to reject all spam. Spam filtering is not that black and white. Suppose a...
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Timothy Alberts I think it's a wonderful idea to not let spam into the server at all. If a legitimate sender is...
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