I'm assuming that if we opt to turn BSB off and quarantining on, everything that was blocked would be quarantined.

That's the problem with assuming - you assume one thing and I assume another...


Hopefully PN will dispel the confusion in due course...

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There hasn't been much (any?) information apart from what was quoted above.
I don't know if email rejected by the BSB (if enabled) will be quarantined but suspect not. Maybe I missed a BTW in discussion somewhere.

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Email rejected by BSB is not quarantined and the emails blocked on this basis do not feature on any summary reports.

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I would like to see more information published even down to telling us what Postini will send when rejecting our messages.

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Blatant spam is rejected with a 571 server response. Messages to domains that don't exist in Postini's systems (or messages that Postini is unable to deliver) are rejected with a 554 server response. There are other rejection codes but these are by far the most common.

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I'm assuming that if we opt to turn BSB off and quarantining on, everything that was blocked would be quarantined.

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Yes jelv, that's how I understand it to work.


Kind Rgds,

Bob has!

Thanks Bob! Excellent response - so far...
So to get where I want to, one last question (for now):


IF I turn off BSB will I be able to tell WHAT messages BSB WOULD have blocked (had it been on) from the Postini header? i.e. is there a unique code (or codes) for BSB candidates (as opposed to other spam suspects).

What I want to do is get a feeling for the accuracy of the BSB before I turn it on,
Running for a period with BSB off and identifying messages that would have been intercepted by BSB would do that, plus at any time email went missing I could turn it off and do a test.

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IF I turn off BSB will I be able to tell WHAT messages BSB WOULD have blocked (had it been on) from the Postini header? i.e. is there a unique code (or codes) for BSB candidates (as opposed to other spam suspects).

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The key to that is in the following header:

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X-pstn-levels: (S: 0.43242/99.72055 R:95.9108 P:95.9108 M:97.0282 C:98.6951 )

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The highlighted value determines whether or not a message is considered blatant spam or not. I'm not too sure of the thresholds for this though. The info from Postini's site is here.

Rgds,

Thanks Bob, that link is the key to my question.
I'm happy now...