[Mimedefang] Spam maildrop and reject?

Kenneth Porter shiva at sewingwitch.com
Fri Aug 19 15:17:04 EDT 2005


--On Friday, August 19, 2005 11:36 AM -0700 Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com 
wrote:

> Sounds like you want to reject-and-deliver...  There are patches for
> sendmail that allow that kind of thing from a milter.  Not sure how
> MIMEDefang functions could be used to that effect.

You have the original message in hand within MD at the time you decide to 
reject, so you can just feed it straight to the delivery agent and bypass 
sendmail for the spamdrop. MD typically runs as user "defang", so let that 
user own the spamdrop to avoid permission issues.





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