Re: Spam filtering in Exim? Does it exist?

On Tue, 6 May 1997, Lyle Scully wrote:

> I just started playing around with Exim (1.62) and I had a couple of
> questions. First off are there any anti-spam provisions built in or has
> anyone come up with filters that let me assign lists of domains/users to
> not accept? I am looking to move away from Sendmail but without the filters
> for spam I can't (have also looked into Qmail but it in some ways seems as
> confusing as Sendmail) honestly make the change.

Obviously you have not looked at the manual yet. See Chapter 43.

> Also I am wondering if there is a way to limit the # of recipients on a
> message. Say user logs into the terminal server and fires off a spam with a
> message having 1000 addresses in it. I would like to accept the message but
> drop it from delivery. That way the spammer thinks it went out but didn't.
> Is this sort of thing possible? I don't even know if it is possible with
> Sendmail.

You should never make mail disappear, because you could be trashing
legit mail without realizing it.

Exim has a "recipients_max" option. See the manual.

> Thanks for your time
>
> Lyle
>
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> Lyle Scully
> VP/System Administrator
> AZLink Internet Services, Inc.
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Tom