[Mimedefang] How to exclude localhost from MD/SA checks

[Stefano McGhee]

Hello Ed,
	I was referring to forwarding on (bouncing) false positives to
their intended recipients, not to bouncing spam back to the originator.
HOWEVER, I do bounce spam that scores over twice what my spam threshold
count is (10x2 = 20).  As was previously discussed on this list, it is
intended to send the mail from back to whence it came.  Let the admin of
the server who let the spam onto the Internet deal with it :)
	My problem is that I's like to look at the spam that registers more
than 10, but less than 20 and forward on that which was improperly tagged
(false positive).  I do that now from an internal account, but the mail
seems to come from spam at mydomain.com instead of the original recipient.  I
was hoping that using a local account (local to the MD/SA box) would allow
me to use the bounce command in pine to send the mail on as if it was never
stopped.  Anyone doing that?

Cheers,

Stefano

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Wildgoose [mailto:Edward.Wildgoose at frmhedge.com] 
Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:36 AM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: RE: [Mimedefang] How to exclude localhost from MD/SA checks


Is it really worth bouncing spam... Almost certainly not...

I'm very new to MimeDefang, but I assume that if is feasible to have it
reject the mail rather than bounce it, ie 550 Permanent Failure response to
the DATA command?

Even this is unlikely to prevent many spammers from continuing to send to
that address...

Ed W

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano McGhee [mailto:SMcGhee at arcweb.com]
Sent: 19 September 2002 16:10
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: [Mimedefang] How to exclude localhost from MD/SA checks


Hello all,
	I was thinking about setting up an account on my Linux box to tend
to the spam that SA has tagged.  That way, I can bounce false positives to
the recipients without having it seem to come from the spam account on our
internal mailserver, where iffy mail is delivered now.  How can I skip all
tests for mail originating from localhost so that the mail is not retagged
and sent back to me?  Is there a better way to review questionable messages
and send them on?

Cheers,

Stefano

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