[Kolab-devel] TO all anti-spam enthusiasts

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Alain,

"Alain Spineux" <aspineux at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi
>
> Recently, I saw a lot of post about activating some "postfix antispam" features.
>
> I would like to react!
>
> The first goal of an email system is to exchange messages between peoples.
> Anything that prevent messages to pass through must be discuss with care!
> Anything that menace the system must be hardly fought!
>
> Virus contain a security risk and must be fought without mercy.
> SPAMS are a calamity for all of us but don't contains any security risk!
> While measures against SPAMS can break the exchange of messages.
> They are still lot of server not well configured: with bad helo announce,
> without a reverse DNS records ...., that will suffer of these choices.
>
> Anything that could prevent a legitimate message to reach its destination
> should be optional and at the discretion of the administrator to activate them
> or not.
>
> Most of the SPAMMER know the rules and the usage of SMTP protocol better
> than us and already (or will) bypass these "static" options.
>
> Only grey and black listing are "dynamic" measures against SPAM that
> SPAMMER cannot control!

I fully subscribe to that view and also believe that we need to be
very, very careful about changing postfix configurations. The proposed
changes will of course get discussed but I believe the last thing
anybody of us wants is to have legitimate messages being blocked.

Cheers,

Gunnar

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