Spam and sieve vacation

[Rudy Gevaert]

Janne Peltonen wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:58:04PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert 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.
> 
> This is interesting. What does it mean that a message gets put in
> quarantine? Does somebody have to approve it manually before it gets out
> and away? 

No, if it ends up in the quarantine it gets deleted when the appliance 
reaches 80% of its disk space.

If somebody would mail us we could go and have a look.  But nobody has 
emailed us yet. :)

How many such messages do you get per day/week? How big is
> your user base?

We have almost 50.000 users.  Not counting all other users that are 
hosted on servers inside our mail domain (we don't have much control 
over them).

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Rudy Gevaert          Rudy.Gevaert at UGent.be          tel:+32 9 264 4734
Directie ICT, afd. Infrastructuur ICT Department, Infrastructure office
Groep Systemen                    Systems group
Universiteit Gent                 Ghent University
Krijgslaan 281, gebouw S9, 9000 Gent, Belgie               www.UGent.be
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