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Re: Returning Details about Spam Evaluation when Rejecting Spam

2009-11-26 13:10:46

I agree with Hector - the less detail the better when communicating
back to spammers.

How about:
   250 Requested mail action OK

and log the details as Hector suggested.

If you are required to notify the sender of the failure due to
corporate guidelines,
make the msg even more generic:
  550  Your mail was rejected due to local policy


n8


2009/11/26 Дилян Палаузов <dilyan(_dot_)palauzov(_at_)aegee(_dot_)org>:

Hello,

When an email is evaluated as spam and in turn is rejected during the SMTP
dialog, is it reasonable to show in the SMTP response the result of the spam
evaluation or not?

E.g. Using SpamAssassin to filter the messages, what response is better and
why?

550 5.7.1 Your mail was evaluated as spam.

or

550-5.7.1 Your mail was evaluated as spam (see below for details).
550-5.7.1
550-5.7.1 -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record
550-5.7.1 -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1%
550-5.7.1 [score: 0.0000]
550 5.7.1 1.0 DKIM_VALID DKIM_VALID


Thanks in advance for your opinion,
 Дилян