Autor: Sheldon Hearn Data: A: Phil Chambers CC: Philip Hazel, exim-users Assumpte: Re: [Exim] List of what's new and changed in Exim 4
On Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:11:13 +0100, Phil Chambers wrote:
> I can see the need for local_scan() if a full-blown virus-scanning
> engine is to be integrated, but for the sort of scanning which I now
> do with the system filter I don't want to have to re-write it in C and
> then re-compile and re-make Exim every time I make a small addition.
You'd have written _really_ bad code if you had to recompile every time
new patterns were added. :-)
> With most junk mail using forged envelope and header addresses it
> really would cut down the dross if the system filter could reject at
> the SMTP stage.
"At the SMTP stage" is broad. When exactly do you want the system
filter applied?
