Spam and sieve vacation

[Rudy Gevaert]

Janne Peltonen wrote:

> Now I'd like to ask the people on this list about their experiences
> using the sieve vacation module. The risks of automatically
> responding to spam / automatically forwarding spam / ending up in
> sorceror's apprentice mode / ending up having our mail servers
> blacklisted as spam relays - would they be acceptably low?

We (Ghent University) are using an Ironport appliance to tag spam.  We 
allow our users to forward email and to set vacations.  We deliver all 
messages that have a score lower that X (the higher X the more chance 
it's spam).  For outgoing messages if we think a message is spam we put 
in a quarantine.  Thus preventing the sending out of spam.

Rudy


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