Re: [exim] question about exim and spamassassin

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Author: Marcin Krol
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] question about exim and spamassassin
Mostafa M.Fouad napisał(a):
> that when a message detected as a spam it automatically update the ip address into the file exim_access_list, even through external perl script
> so the next time i recieve spam from the same source it can be blocked from the connection time...and hence reduce the processing of the message???
>


Why not quarantine this mail instead? Otherwise, at the minimum you
should store spam/ham ratios along with the IPs and only block if some
experimentally found and reasonably safe threshold is exceeded.
Otherwise, a single false negative would block this (possibly large)
provider.

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Marcin Król