[Mimedefang] Reject Spam instead of tag it

[Jamie Pratt]

...regarding the rfc 2821 delivery specs etc... (Yes, he is correct - 
mail accepted for delivery should be delivered according to that RFC.)

So... Question... If I am "accepting mail", and redirecting *only* SPAM 
to a local system account on a relay, instead of the original recips 
(Noone there wants ANY spam, they WANT it deleted/gone, and NOT 
tagged...), does this violate the RFC? I would say technically, no, as 
the mail *does* get delivered, just not to the original recips it was 
intended for. Would this be considered non-RFC compliant ? hmmmm....

Personally, I think the IETF, or *whoever* it was  who writes/maintains 
(???) the RFC's were/are a bit too opinionated - every site is totally 
different these days, and has different policies on everything, so by 
nature they will never be followed the same by all sites..)

regards,
jamie

James Ebright wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 15:54:35 -0700 (PDT), Curtis wrote
> 
>>We tag as spam for
>>anything between a 5 and 20.
> 
> 
> We do a similar check/tag, but reject at the SMTP level (using action_bounce)
> if it scores higher than our reject threshhold, this notifies the sending MTA
> that the message was NOT delivered as it was never accepted for delivery.
> Discarding the message means the sender in the case of a false-positive never
> knows their message was not delivered and has no way of knowing what happened
> to their mail as the sending MTA got a "250 message accepted for delivery"
> from your MTA. Mail should NEVER just disappear if it is accepted, the only
> exception I have ever made is for virus mail and DOS type attacks and I don't
> think anyone would ever give an admin grief in either of those two cases.
> 
> 
>>Finally, I would like to review the RFC you were
>>trying to cite. The one you gave is not for SMTP or
>>Sendmail. The RFC you cited is for an SNMP standard.
>>Which RFC should I review?
> 
> 
> I may have typoed that number, here is the URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
> 
> I believe you will want to look at section "6.1 Reliable Delivery and Replies
> by Email" specifically but it is also mentioned in a few other places.
> 
> 
> Jim
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