Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

[Kristian Fiskerstrand <k_f@gentoo.org>]

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On 05/11/2015 09:31 PM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 05/11/2015 03:29 AM, Eray Aslan wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:26:01AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson
>> wrote:
>>> TL;DR: As of May 17, @gentoo.org will drop incoming spammy mail
>>> instead of delivering it. Speak now or hold your peace.
>> 
>> Believe me I understand your pain.  Been there done that.
>> However, dropping mail is never a good idea.  You are mucking
>> with the dependebility of the email.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> Is there some reason a pre-queue filter (with amavisd-new)
> wouldn't work? Then we could reject the spammy messages (at SMTP
> time) instead of silently dropping them.
> 
> 

Could it be an alternative to move the messages flagged as spam into
an own folder that isn't forwarded? at least that means it doesn't
impact operations for those using it locally and the mail is still
around, if a webmail interface or something was used it could be
accessed through that for the forwarding users.


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