Hi Chris, on Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:46:26 -0700 you wrote:
> The lines I put into exim.conf are from this page:
> http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/node11.html
This is a rather old way of doing things which has various problems.
Rather than continuing with an old version of Exim and a relatively poor
way of checking for spam, it would be *well* worth your time to upgrade to
Exim 4.x and use Exiscan instead (don't be put off - it's not difficult
and once you do it, you'll wish you did it earlier!). Check out my HOWTO
for more discussion:
http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/Exim-SpamAndVirusScanning.pdf
Aside from everything else, you will find that with Exim 4's powerful
ACLs, you can block a lot of spam before it even reaches SpamAssassin.
SpamAssassin alone in a default install is of limited usefulness these
days unless you have Bayes-trained it, because spammers are good at
evading the default SA rules (especially since it's a while since SA 2.63
came out and they have therefore had time to experiment).
Tim
