Thank you very much for your reply and suggestion. I've tested with the
GTUBE test as well as the EICAR antivirus test and both are properly
dropped at SMTP time.
Is there a more rigorous test that can be performed?
Thanks again
On Thu, April 13, 2006 13:42, Marc Sherman wrote:
> 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
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