[SpamAssassin Wiki] Updated: DeletingAllMailsMarkedSpam

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   Date: 2004-05-30T03:53:08
   Editor: 202.123.128.137 <>
   Wiki: SpamAssassin Wiki
   Page: DeletingAllMailsMarkedSpam
   URL: http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/DeletingAllMailsMarkedSpam

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 In general, no. While SpamAssassin is very good at picking out a large proportion of spam, it's impossible for a computer to do this job perfectly. You should only delete mail if you (and your users/customers) would find it acceptable to lose mail that might be legitimate. A much better idea is to filter possible spam into a separate folder that can be checked less frequently than the normal mailbox. It is possible to reject the mail at the smtp level, generating a delivery error, so the sender is notified that their message is rejected. This works well imo. You need to use a mail server that supports this(I use mimedefang+sendmail).  Mimedefang also allows me to save the mail to a central archive that I can extract from if I get a FP. If you do reject mail at the 5xx delivery level you need to set your spam threshold higher than the default of 5.
 
+(EditHint: I log in into a shell account, so I wrote a perl script that checks my spam mailbox for new messages [i.e. those missing a Status field in the header] and included it in my .bashrc.  This script, with the -r option, also marks all those messages as read so I don't see those same headers popping up next time I log in.)
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 == But I really really want to do it anyway! ==
 
 Don't say we didn't warn you ;)