Re: [exim] Spam Detection

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Author: Renaud Allard
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To: Sebastian Berm
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Spam Detection


Sebastian Berm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone perhaps have a howto or guide on how to implement this? -
> I've never seen SA working with Exim ACL's directly before...
> It seems like an idea worth investigating.
>
> However, sometimes SA can be very slow, or even refuse to work at all,
> how can this be solved in these cases?
> At the moment I use the spamassassin_delivery method as well, but I've
> added a few lines to make sure that if SA fails and the message would
> get thrown out due to SA failing, it simpily comes back in the queue
> waiting to be delivery correctly to the spamassassin_delivery again.
> Which gives the system admins the time to fix problems caused by SA,
> without mail being dropped.
>
> I don't think sending back a temporary reject will work with all
> mailservers. I've seen some servers not quite following RFC's (not
> pointing any fingers here), but still I want to be able to handle those
> requests.
>
>


You can always consult the excellent howto at
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Spam-Filtering-for-MX/

If this does not answer your question, I think you may need to precise
what you are trying to do, the problems occurring and some logs
describing the problem.