Re: [Exim] Re: SPAM filtering

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Author: Matthew Byng-Maddick
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: SPAM filtering
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:17:29AM -0400, Jeffrey Wheat wrote:
[rewrapped]
>       Tools like exiscan do exactly what a virus tool should do. It stops
> it. It doesn't put a tag on it telling a customer that "hey you got a
> virus". It stops it and the customer never sees it. It doesn't kill my
> mail server by spawning perl processes for each mail arriving. Tools for
> spam should do exactly that as well. Integrated into exim using
> local_scan, stop spam instead of simply tagging it.


This sounds like a recipe for losing mail. Whatever happened to reliable
mail delivery?

It sounds like you basically want your own rules of netblocks and dns-based
blacklists. There isn't really any other way. You will almost certainly have
to have a custom solution.

MBM

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