dropping spam messages?

[Tim Tyler]

Mailscanner,
  I am using Mailscanner for virus protection along with Sophos and it works
wonderfully for the most part.  I had been ignoring spam until now.  I
usually just tell end users to delete it.  However, recently it has been
becoming more and more annoying and to the point of DOSing our smtp server.
  Can the latest version of Mailsanner have spam email be automatically
deleted like virus email and have a message sent back to the sender
indicating that the email was not delivered because it was identified as
spam, etc.?  Any thoughts on how often false positives for spam are
identified?

Note: I am not a fan of tagging email as spam and letting end users filter
it.  I would rather stop it altogether (as much as possible).


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Tim Tyler
Network Manager - Beloit College
tyler at beloit.edu