Re: [exim] SPAM testing

xyon wrote:
>
> I've built an exim dev environment for pre-production testing. Once my
> supervisor is sufficiently impressed with the dev environment, we will be
> rolling exim into a production setting. So far he's been quite impressed
> with it.
>
> The only thing he'd really like to test thoroughly is the anti-spam
> capabilities. What I'm wondering is: are there services out there to test
> against spam, or would setting up a dummy email address and registering
> for online prescription/etc be the "best" method to test spam rejection?

Most spam filters support GTUBE, which is a test signature similar to
the EICAR virus signature. I can't include it here, because if I do
you'll likely never see my email, but google should find it for you.
Spamassassin includes it in their distro in examples/sample-spam.txt.

- Marc