[CentOS] Rejecting spam

Tue Mar 4 20:32:55 UTC 2008
Tim Alberts <talberts at msiscales.com>

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.