[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang/SpamAssassin and fetchmail take 2

David T Hollis dhollis at davehollis.com
Fri Jun 6 21:16:01 EDT 2003


David F. Skoll wrote:

>On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, David T Hollis wrote:
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>>Does MIMEDefang have provisions to allow messages sent
>>from localhost to not be dropped?
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>MIMEDefang won't drop mail unless you tell it to.  The default filter
>only tags spam; it doesn't bounce it.
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>Also, if you're using action_drop, that's the wrong thing to do.  You
>want action_bounce (or more likely for your setup, action_discard).
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>As always: Please read mimedefang-filter(5).
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Oops, you got me there!  So by using action_drop, it would only drop the 
part but at that point I wasn't dealing with a part which pretty much 
had it do nothing desirable.  Just changed it to discard and it looks 
like it works exactly how I want.

Thanks for the tip!




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