Re: [gentoo-dev] Anti-spam changes: proposal to drop spammy mail

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/11/2015 03:29 AM, Eray Aslan wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 04:26:01AM +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>> TL;DR: As of May 17, @gentoo.org will drop incoming spammy mail instead of
>> delivering it. Speak now or hold your peace.
>
> Believe me I understand your pain.  Been there done that.  However,
> dropping mail is never a good idea.  You are mucking with the
> dependebility of the email.

Agreed.

Is there some reason a pre-queue filter (with amavisd-new) wouldn't
work? Then we could reject the spammy messages (at SMTP time) instead of
silently dropping them.