Spam Actions

[Julian Field]

At 08:45 11/09/2002, you wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:31:59 -0500, you wrote:
>
> >> It should still be possible to whitelist ones own IP's and the
> >> postmaster/abuse/admin accounts.
> >>
> >Agreed, but I think it best to be judicious in generating a bounce for a
> >black list hit. My preference is to only send the bounce back if it
> >looks like a legitimate email message that just happens to originate
> >from a black listed site. Spammers who take advantage of an open relay
> >or those that fall for the "make money with your computer at home" could
> >care less if the get a bounce (and most will never be delivered anyway).
> >It's the innocent user that just happens to be at a black listed site
> >that I'm concerned about.
>
>To make it even more difficult:
>
>Bounce the message referencing the blacklist if SA doesn't qualify it as
>spam. Don't bounce when SA says it's spam.

I'm starting to regret this....
I need to keep it relatively simple or else no-one will ever work out how
to use it, which is worse than doing nothing. I've got a fairly clear idea
of what I want to do, which will hopefully keep most of you happy most of
the time. If it detected as spam, add "bounce" to the list of things you
can do, but allow you to put the contents of the X-MailScanner-SpamCheck
header in the message (excluding all the SA rule hits).

I hope that's good enough for most of you :-)
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ