RE: [cobalt-users] E-mail Catch All

["Dan Kriwitsky" <list1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > Accepting the spam and sending it to /dev/null does not 
> stop the spam. 
> > It's just an illusion to make you think you're not getting spam or 
> > using your bandwidth.
> 
> Ok. Fine. But either way you're processing spam - you're 
> denying the spammer from sending mail to the box (still 
> utilizing CPU cyles/bandwidth) or you're sending it into oblivion.
> 
> Is the difference in consumed resources that much greater in 
> the second scenario than the first?
> 

When you drop the connection to SMTP with a 550 error message, that's
it. Trafficmagnet.net was sending pretty big HTML email with .gif
attachments last time I got their spam, so dropping the connection would
use less resources than accepting the spam and sending it to /dev/null.
-- 
Dan Kriwitsky

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