Re: testing spamdomain

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Tim Patterson
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: testing spamdomain
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Tim Patterson wrote:

> I suspect that my filter is not working the way I expect, but the
> real question is: How does one test a specific address against
> the /etc/mail/spamdomains file and determine success or failure.


Since Exim does these checks only when receiving SMTP mail, the only way
to test is to

telnet 127.0.0.1 25

and pretend to be a remote host, i.e. try things like

mail from:x@???
rcpt to:you@yourdomain

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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P.Hazel@???          England.  Phone: +44 1223 334714



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