Re: Milter vs. Procmail

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:50:13 -0700 (PPT) "John D. Hardin" <jhardin@impsec.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> John Hardin

Thank you, John. I don't generate a bounce message anyway. That would cause me more problems than it may even try to solve. ;-)

-- 
Raquel
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