Spam Assassin Reject

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Jul 16, 2005, at 6:10 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote:

>> I've installed Spam Assassin and MIMEDefang with Sendmail however I
>> would like Spam Assassin to tell sendmail to "Reject" Spam on the
>> connection.
>>
>
> 1) SpamAssassin cannot detect spam until it has received and analyzed
>    the FULL message, so rejecting on connection is not possible.

It is possible to reject during the connection during the DATA  
phase.  Using exim and sa-exim glue, with spamassassin, this is what  
I do.  The sender gets a 5xx rejection with the message: UCE not  
allowed.  I have the score set ridiculously high so that only very  
egregious spam gets rejected this way, in order to avoid rejection of  
false positives.  I also have an sa-exim based greylist running with  
spamassassin at connection time.

Chad

>
> 2) that is phylosophy of SA to only MARK the spam.
>
> Olivier
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