Re: [Nolug] Messages flooding /var/log/mail.log after I installed postfix, SpamAssassin & Amavisd

On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 18:21, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 07:58, Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
> >> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> >>
> >> > My question is: *why* am I getting these in the 1st place? They
> >> > do not seem to correspond to timestamps on quarantined spam.
> >>
> >> Bounces for spam that your setup didn't recognise as spam?
> >
> > "Bounces for spam"?
>
> Spam that is delivered to a no-longer-existant or never-existant
> mailbox.
>
> On $WORK's systems, these occasionally clog up the system since we
> have a limit of 250 simultaneous delivery attempts. That is, if we
> don't watch it, the number of bounces will build up so that sendmail
> is trying to deliver 250 simultaneously.

Ok.

So, there are 3 kinds of email?
1. that which SA recognizes as spam
2. that which is valid email
3. that which is neither valid email nor which SA recognizes as spam

Seems like option #3 would be impossible. SA scores each mail,
and it is above the threshold or not.

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Ron Johnson, Jr. ron.l.johnson@cox.net
Jefferson, LA USA
484,246 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 persons 
per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'.
That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri.
Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom.
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