[KLUG Members] Forward with Sendmail

Peter Buxton members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:09:13 -0500 (EST)


> But as a sys-admin, my gripe with spam is the utilization numbers it
> inflates.  Client side filtering won't solve that, or the bandwidth
> problem.  It is much better if they recieve an SMTP closed connection.
> My testing indicates that when the MDA dumps the connection for delivery
> to an address, after a bit they stop trying.

Oh, I'd love to dump their mail at the server. But a bogofilter approach
to figuring out what to dump interests me, and I would like to review my
logs (or partial-mail folder) for the first 25 lines of the message to see
what it is dumping.

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