Re: [Exim] Exim 4 wishlist

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim 4 wishlist
On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Marc Perkel wrote:

> Right not my spam filter looks like this:
>
> if $h_subject: contains "Spam Free Emails"
> or $h_subject: contains "Accept Credit Cards"
> or $h_subject: contains "Weight loss Offer"
> or $h_subject: contains "ADV "
> or $h_subject: contains "[ADV]"
> or $h_subject: contains "ADV:"
> or $h_subject: contains "Lowest Mortgage Rates"
> or $h_subject: contains "Free Pics" ......
>
> What I would live to have is
>
> if $h_subject: contains /etc/mail/prohibited_subject_list
>
> where if I specify a file name it tests each member of the list looking for a true result for contains (or begin - matches
> - etc). This would allow me to create a serious spam filter.


In Exim 4 you will be able to write your own spam processing in a C
function which gets linked into the Exim binary (and so will be quite
efficient).

This means that I won't have to keep on adding more and more ad hoc
features to Exim. :-)

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.