Re: [exim] we all agree, let's drop that spam

2008/11/21 WJCarpenter <bill-exim@???>:
> We use SpamAssassin for spam-scoring, and all local recipients have a
> threshold score, above which a message automatically gets filed into a
> spam folder.
>
> We are planning to implement a different threshold score, above which a
> message gets rejected at SMTP time. For the case of multi-recipient
> messages, the SA score must exceed the maximum of all of the recipient
> reject thresholds for us to reject the message. (A recipient that we
> don't host is considered to have a threshold of some impossibly high
> number since we have no way of knowing their preferences.)
>
> Our plan is to do all these lookups and arithmetic using $recipients in
> the DATA ACL after SA scanning.
>
> Does anyone see any problems with this approach? TIA

The principle is good. You might find the implementation easier if you
calculate the high-water-mark reject score in the RCPT acl and pass it
through to the DATA acl in an acl_m variable.

Peter


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