[Techtalk] Sendmail question #2

[Martin, Caitlyn]

Hi, Kathryn, and everyone else,

> Egads!  Why are you bouncing spam to the "From: " header? 

Like I said, I inherited this mess.

> Those are just going to be forged anyways so just eat the 
> spam/virus instead of returning it.

Yes, I know.  I need to get that sort of change approved and I need to
convince the appropriate people that there is no value to archiving spam and
virii for 30 days.  Yes, we do that too out of the fear that a good message
may be hidden in there and somebody may send us to dig through and find it.
It's insane and needs to change.

> MailScanner lets you do alot of nice things with spam & viruses.

I noticed going through the docs, but I guess you hadn't seen the solved
note :)  We're going to use a MailScanner rule to make them go away.

> I've
> chosen to have it eat viruses and all spam with a SpamAssasin score of 7
> or higher.

We actually are blocking at a score of 3, but archiving spam and
quarantining everything else.

> X-<mydomain>-SpamScore header that I have procmail
> configured to deliver to a 'junk' folder.

That would be nice.  Pity all mail gets sent on to an old Exchange server I
have no control over.

Regards,
Cait
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