Re: [exim] Spam Detection

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Author: Martin.Hepworth
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Spam Detection
Hi

For the SA slow problems here's a little thing I put together for the MailScanner people...

http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin

covers common problems.

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

> -----Original Message-----
> From: exim-users-bounces@??? [mailto:exim-users-bounces@exim.org] On
> Behalf Of Sebastian Berm
> Sent: 22 February 2008 11:35
> To: exim-users
> Subject: Re: [exim] Spam Detection
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Sebastian Berm
>
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