[H-GEN] Postfix, etc., and spam filtering

[Res]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Greg Black wrote:

> Asking a question here worked for Gaz, so maybe it will work for
> me too ...
>
> Last time I checked, Postfix did not offer a mechanism to scan
> incoming messages with an external spam filter during the SMTP
> conversation (i.e., at the end of the DATA phase), but only at
> subsequent phases (i.e., after having accepted the message in
> the SMTP conversation).

Although I prefer to do it the other way (what's it really matter you need 
to accept the message in full regardless to spam/virus test it), and I've 
never seen a spam engine yet that honours a 55x, so I tag low score and 
discard high scored with MailScanner.  However, that said, you want to 
stop it in the initial session, and this can be accomplished by sendmail 
milters in Postfix, I have used with great success in the past smf-spamd
(utilising spamd in spamassassin). I know of people using MIMEDefang that 
do the same.


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