Re: spamass-milter flags, where to include?

[Mooky Mooksgill]

> From: "Jack L. Stone" <address@hidden>
> To: Dan Nelson <address@hidden>,   Mooky Mooksgill 
> <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: spamass-milter flags, where to include?
> Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 14:11:29 -0500
>
> At 01:02 PM 5.14.2004 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (May 14), Mooky Mooksgill said:
> >> Thanks for the example. I'm not sure how mine gets invoked though...
> >> Here's the script... Can I just append the flag to DAEMON line, eg,
> >> DAEMON=/usr/local/sbin/spamass-milter -r 14? Do you think the script
> >> will still work?
> >
> >No; stick it lower down:
> >
> >>                "${DAEMON}" -p "${SOCKET}" -f &
> >
> >^ on this line, so it reads "-f -r 15 &".  I have an updated FreeBSD rc
> >script in CVS that uses rc.subr and is much easier to change flags.
> >With the new setup, you'd just put this in /etc/rc.conf:
> >
> >spamass_milter_enable="YES"
> >spamass_milter_flags="-r 20"
> >
> >--
> >    Dan Nelson
> >    address@hidden
>
> Dan: Indeed! Even better!

I look forward to the new script. Does it require a new spamass-milter, or 
that I upgrade any other component?

Since I'm now dropping spam above 15, what are the implications?

Mail from our ISP arrives on the server via pop3 with fetchmail, 
spamass-milter/clamav/and sendmail deliver it to local user accounts on the 
server, users then query their accounts via qpopper with outlook.

The filtering server does not resolve with DNS, I seem to be getting bounces 
from the bounces that the -r 15 sends.

I'm attaching several of these messages.

The bounce of bounced messages appear in my root mailbox, and some seem not 
to score as spam with  SA...

Should I make this machine resolve?  I can't give it reverse DNS --> It's a 
machine on an internal network, and the IP is not static.

Is there something I can do to not send the bounce (but still drop the 
message), so when they bounce my bounce, I don't get it...

Is this expected? It seems to be useless traffic. And provides spammers bits 
of informatiom.

Is it still a benefit  receiving these bounces compared to just receiving 
all the spam (not using the -r flag).

> Best regards,
> Jack L. Stone,
> Administrator
>
> Sage American
> http://www.sage-american.com
> address@hidden

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