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Re: per-user spam blocking with Postfix



On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:43:03AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:

> It seems that it's impossible to block mail from being received on a per-user 
> basis, so I guess I will have to bounce them (returning an SMTP error 550 is 
> much better as spam generally doesn't have a good bounce address).  But if it 
> is possible to return an error 550 based on sender-IP and destination email 
> then I'd like to know how!

I believe there's patches for some kind of per-user UCE controls,
although I don't know exactly what facilities are provided - check the
postfix-users archives and/or the contrib section on the web site.

> Also I would like to provide an option of flagging messages or putting them 
> in a seperate IMAP folder (procmail could do this if procmail can handle the 
> ORBS and MAPS lookups).

You can do DNS from procmail by calling an external program, though it
is resource intensive.  There's an example somewhere in spambouncer
(http://spambouncer.org IIRC).  

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