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Re: amavis and postfix policy
user name
2007-01-24 12:28:55
Dear Robert et al,

Robert Brooks wrote:
[..]
> Mark,
> 
> many thanks for this. I'd not thought about the
problems with 
> performance. However it is precisely because this is
prequeue that I am 
> interested.

Me too, I'm interested to have some of the tests done
pre-queue.

> 
> I'm keen to avoid accepting email which is not going to
be delivered. 
> I'd rather the server which has the message is
responsible for bouncing 
> than us creating back-scatter or silently failing to
deliver.

Thats one point for which I'm interested in pre-queue
filtering

> 
> Also ultimately I'd like users to be able to chose who
they do and don't 
> accept email from. Just because something is
blacklisted doesn't 
> necessarily mean it's spam (or that all users wish this
address to be 
> blacklisted). There can be personal reasons for
blacklisting or 
> commercial emailers that aren't diligent with
unsubscription requests.

I turned off BL filtering in SA and enabled them in Postfix
(reject_rbl_client bl.spamcop.net etc.). This checks are
relatively
cheap, it does not questioning the expensive SA.

I also applied some basic sender and header checking with
postfix which
are also cheap and quite successful.

The result of this is quite a lower load on the mailserver
and properly
rejected mails for the methods which are
"dangerous" for false positives.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Luc

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