Mail blocking - was Re: [plug] Spam from The Maverick Partnership

[Bret Busby]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Luke Dudney wrote:

> 
> >2. The REJECT command has the same effect of REJECT in ipchains - buries
> >the communication, but does not send a message back to the sender
> >indicating that the message has been rejected (or, is it DENY in ipchains
> >that does that?) ?
> >
> No, the REJECT on the RHS of the map means to reject the message with a 
> "552 Error: content rejected"
> The sending MTA should bounce the message back to the envelope sender.
> 
> And it's the DENY target in ipchains that drops the packet silently.
> 

Wouldn't it be more appropriate, to just silently drop the packet, so
that the spammer can't trace the party blocking the message?

Can DENY, or an equivalent command, be used in the postfix command line,
to silently drop the packet?

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Bret Busby
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