[conspire] How not to do antispam, latest in a continuing series

[Ruben Safir]

On 02/21/2015 07:47 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Not quite as bad as a Challenge-Response (C-R) mailbot, but in that ball
> park.  (Folks, if you're going to have your mail software reject mail,
> it's best to do it during the incoming SMTP conversation, not after MTA
> acceptance and closing of the SMTP socket.  It appears in Ruben's case
> that he's running some sort of autoreject bot based on BSD mailx at the
> Local Delivery Agent step, after mail acceptance.)
> 
> I'm _assuming_ that this is failed antispam.  If it's killfiling, that's
> a bit awkward given that it appears to be rejection of mail arriving
> from one of my mailing lists to which Ruben subcribed -- probably this
> mailing list.  (Killfiling the listadmin is usually a bad idea.)
> 

it is an experiment gone awry that the moment.  I'll have to get back to
it later.



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