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Timothy Alberts Re: [CentOS] Rejecting spam
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Glenn wrote:
> At 02:35 PM 3/4/2008, you wrote:
>
>> Sorry, not a direct CentOS question, but I know there's a lot of
>> experienced users on this list...I'm using CentOS with sendmail and
>> spamassassin. I've got it configured with spamass-milter and it is
>> working correctly. However, I was expecting to be able to reject
>> mail that is marked as spam, not just deliver it as usual. Anyone
>> know if it can be done and how? I know a milter can reject mail,
>> because I've used milter-grelist in the past to give temporary fail
>> messages.
>>
>> Following is my sendmail.m4 directive for spamass-milter:
>>
>> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`spamassassin',
>> `S=unix:/var/run/spamass-milter/spamass-milter.sock, F=,
>> T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m')dnl
>> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_CONNECT',`t, b, j, _, {daemon_name},
>> {if_name}, {if_addr}')dnl
>> define(`confMILTER_MACROS_HELO',`s, {tls_version}, {cipher},
>> {cipher_bits}, {cert_subject}, {cert_issuer}')dnl
>
> Not sure, but I think you could use procmail to filter to a junk
> folder based upon parsing the SpamAssassin score. Also, you can block
> based on RBL in sendmail , or score in spamassassin.
>

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.


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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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