Rulesets

John Rudd jrudd at UCSC.EDU
Thu Mar 20 15:43:41 GMT 2003


> From: John Rudd <jrudd at UCSC.EDU>
>
> For one, I don't think you''ll get any value out of bouncing messages.
> Spam just isn't reliably bouncable.  And some spam that is bouncable
> ends up bouncing to an address that isn't the actual sender.

I still think this is true, but ...

> But, for what you're trying to do, I'd probably do a delete,forward instead
> of bounce,delete.  I'd forward the message to an alias which is a program,
> and that program would parse out the message finding out what spam catagories
> the message falls into (spam assassin+razor, which rbls, etc), and then takes
> action based upon those things in the SpamCheck header.

Julian's answer on this side is probably better than mine :-}



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