Re: [exim] How best to blackhole e-mails

--On 30 October 2007 12:11:48 +0000 paul.mcilfatrick@??? wrote:

>
> At present our Exim config does a lot of checking (btw this local mail
> server is behind our company firewall and we are unable to use verify =
> sender and verify = sender/callout as they are blocked)

You should be able to do verify=sender, since that's only using DNS.

What are you running on the edge server? You should be doing your spam and
virus filtering there, in Exim ACLs if you can.

> but still a
> large percentage of e-mails are passed through to SpamAssassin. As this
> is a secondary mail system, any e-mail with a SpamAssassin score of 5.0
> or more is not delivered but is put in a directory and retained for 10
> days before being deleted.



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Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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