we have exchange server and antispam device this device will reject any email contains a spam or sent to a spamed mail, I want to configure this device not to reject the email just to notify the receiver that this mail conatins a spam is this idea is good, or it will be so heavy for the exchange server to handel these spams.
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That's not a good idea. You'd basically be validating that an email address is valid - something the spammers are looking for.
Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Pat Richard
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Dropping email at the connection level when the sending IP is a known spammer (according to various blacklists) is generally a good thing, and is the recommended first approach to a coordinated antispam policy - Microsoft drop a significant proportion of mail connection requests to their network on this basis.
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