Getting a new server

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Feb 5, 2006, at 3:10 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> You had said your using spamassasin, that and other content filters  
> like
> dspam must have completely received the message before they can  
> scan it.

They do not have had to finish the smtp process however.

Chad

>
> Ted
>
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>> Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
>> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 7:50 AM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; Lisa Casey
>> Subject: Re: Getting a new server
>>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 4, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>> The beauty of the greylist milter over the way your doing it, is  
>>> that
>>> with
>>> your method, the spammer is able to completely send the message to
>>> you.
>>> Yes I realize the message gets killed in between your outside
>>> server and
>>> your user's mailbox.  But, the spammer doesen't know that and they
>>> think
>>> they have successfully sent a message.  Thus it encourages them to
>>> keep sending.
>>
>> Uhh, no.  They may be sending the message but they get the reject in
>> the DATA phase before the smtp connection is done.  The spammer does
>> NOT think he has successfully sent the message unless it is one that
>> does not care anyway to finish the smtp connection.
>>
>> Chad
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