Re: [exim] Exim and Spamassasin

--On 19 July 2007 11:32:04 +0200 Robby Balona <robby@???> wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I have Exim purring away and doing well and Spamasassin seems to work
> nicely to. I would like to drop or quarantine mails marked as spam by
> Spamasassin . I know all the arguments about doing this but I would like
> to block the spam never the less.

It is possible to have spamassassin examine email before you accept it,
using an Exim ACL. It's far better to reject than drop the emails, since
false positives will be reported back to the sender. This means you can be
more aggressive in your spam filtering.

> Being a newbie I have no idea how to go about doing this. Do I need to
> setup Exim to drop the mail or must I install another filter of some
> kind. I looked at maildrop but my server is a gateway so I don't have
> local users.

It's in section 41.2 and 41.3 of the manual.


> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Robby



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