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On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 11:43:03AM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
| Hello all,
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| I am new at this list. I switched the server in my local network to
| Debian Woody. There runs Exim version 3.35 #1 built 04-Mar-2002 23:05:40.
| At least I installed avmailgate from http://www.hbedv.com/.
| Avmailgate is listening at port 25 and does a smtp forward to port
| 825. In exim.conf daemon_smtp_port = smtp-backdoor is configured,
| where smtp-backdoor is 825/tcp in the /etc/services. Now every mail
| fetched by fetchmail and relayed from a client is scanned by
| avmailgate. But when I send an email logged on the server itself, the
| mail is directly forwarded to exim without scanning through port 25.
| I am using mutt with reset sendmail configured.
2 comments :
1) Having fetchmail use SMTP is not a very good idea, instead use
the option
mda = /usr/sbin/exim %T
in your .fetchmailrc. It's much more reliable that way.
2) mutt doesn't do SMTP (because it's a MUA, not an MTA). It
pipes the mesasge to $sendmail (defaults to /usr/lib/sendmail,
which is a symlink to exim) because it is simpler and more
reliable.
Due to your setup, this means that mutt hands the message
straight to exim and avmailgate never sees it.
| How do I have to configure exim for scanning mails sent directly
| from the server?
Does avmailgate have a command-line interface? Particularly one that
takes a message on stdin and echos it out (tagged in some way) on
stdout?
If so then you can use this strategy
http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim3_spamassassin.html
and substitute avmailgate for spamc in the exim config part of the
doc. Also, accordingly, substitute the checks in the system filter
for whatever tag avmail uses (instead of X-Spam-Status:).
Another possibility for you is to use exiscan. (do a google search
for it)
HTH,
-D
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