Author: James P. Roberts Date: To: Matt Bernstein, Cory Daehn CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Questin about RBL's
> On Jul 30 Cory Daehn wrote: >
> >I use an e-mail forwarding service (pobox.com) for much of my mail...
> >
> >I would like to configure exim to scan the headers of the incoming message,
> >and /dev/null any messages that come from a server in the many RBL's I have
> >configured in my exim.conf... Is there an easy way to do this?
>
> No, if your mail is coming in via the relays for pobox.com. You'd have to
> (in the DATA phase) examine the "Received" headers, and do your RBL checks
> on the headers added by pobox.com.
>
> This might be something SpamAssassin can do. It would awkward in Exim.
>
I don't know about "awkward" but there was a thread a while back describing a
method for doing this in Exim. The subject was "rbl-check for forwarded
spam". I think it was back in ~April 2003?
