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). -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Rudy Gevaert Rudy.Gevaert@xxxxxxxx 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 -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
