[CentOS] Re: Rejecting spam

Tue Mar 4 20:51:56 UTC 2008
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 3-4-2008 12:32 PM Tim Alberts spake the following:
> 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.
Looking at the docs, spamass-milter doesn't do any rejecting. I believe you 
can do it with mimedefang, but you will have to go through their docs to 
figure it out.

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