Re: Milter vs. Procmail

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Raquel wrote:

> I have a question. Is there any advantage to using say,
> Spamass-Milter over calling spamc from procmail?

Using a milter allows you to reject the message during the SMTP conversation. The value of that is, it's far better than generating a bounce message if you don't want to just silently discard spam, as it reduces (but does not eliminate!) joe-job fallout.

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