Re: [Exim] Fighting fake spam headers

On Jun 14, 2004, at 02:25, Tor Slettnes wrote:
> You probably want to use Exiscan-ACL (or perhaps SA-Exim) to run
> SpamAssassin at SMTP time, rather than setup a router to do a SA scan
> during delivery. That way, if a message is classified as spam, it can
> be rejected during the transaction, so that you don't have to bounce
> rejected mail to the (nearly always forged) sender address, and/or
> drop the mail in a black hole (a problem in case of normal mail
> misclassified as spam).
>
> If you happen to run Debian, you can get the "exim4-daemon-heavy"
> package (if you are running Woody, you will need to get it from a
> separate APT source). Read the documentation in
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-daemon-heavy/exiscan-*.

I do happen to run Debian. My system is about 70% Debian Stable, but
since some of the packages there are 3+ years old, I have a lot of
Debian Testing packages there too.

What are the differences between exim4 and exim4-daemon-heavy? Is
SpamAssassin built in, or do I somehow need to hook it up? Now that
I've started using exim, I don't want to have to take it offline for
days at a time to reconfigure it. That's why I was hoping to just do a
minor modification to the transports and routers.

Ben