Stopping mail rejection and fetchmail filtering

[Anonymous]

Hi,

just changed from a linux server to an OSX server, and currently drowning under a deluge of spam.

I have a number of domains, most of which go directly to the osx servers mail server. Becasue this is a domestic adsl line, the third MX server on the domain is my ISPs mail server.
Problem is, when an email comes in that is blocked by spamhaus, my server rejects it, so it goes back upstream and takes the next mail server in a row, so goes to my ISP which then gets nicely delivered to me due to fetchmail.

Can I set postfix to silently delete anything on the blocklist?
Also some things that get found to be spam later on try to be sent back to their owners. I don’t want this behaviour as I am spamming some poor server who has its email address.

The other part is the fetchmail service. Can I get spamassassin working on the fetchmail part?

Spamassassin is at least now trained to the point where it does something (although a long way from how good the linux one was) and it is actually filtering 200+ emails out a day. Unfortunately that still leaves 100 that it isn’t.

Alienrat

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