Re: [Exim] fetchmail and RBL checking

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Author: Sam Varghese
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] fetchmail and RBL checking
On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 01:26:15PM +0000, Stephen Turner wrote:
> As I am not on a permanent connection, I download all my mail from my
> various ISPs using fetchmail.
>
> I would love to be able to discard spam before it ends up in my mailbox, but
> exim's RBL checks only work on the connecting host, which is not very useful
> for me as the connecting host is localhost.


Until you get a spam blocking system in place, use popchecker to look at
the headers of your mail and delete the spam.

http://linux.tucows.com/internet/preview/8566.html

Sam
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