Re: [exim] scanning at ACL using external program

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Autor: ROGERS Richard
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A: Marcin Krol, exim users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] scanning at ACL using external program
Marcin Krol wrote:
> Peter Bowyer wrote:
>>> This header is readily added by spamc. Frankly, spamc or other
>>> external script/client is a proper place to generate this kind of
>>> information.
>>
>> Can you not make SA do exactly this with the X-Spam-Report header and
>> suitable options under 'header' in SA local.cf?
>
> Sure. Except
>
> 1. as I explained in another mail, I actually need both headers
> (short spam report for user filtering on that and detailed rule
> scoring - for diagnosing spams that got through and finetuning SA
> later), and spamc does all that by default, so why reinvent the
> wheel?    

>
> 2. One could *reasonably* might want to do smth else with thos mails
> (say, developing custom spam filter or plugging in something
> different than SA altogether), and scanning the "old way" (by sending
> mail to a "spamcheck" transport, scanning and reinjecting it with
> Exim) does not allow doing it at SMTP time.    

>
> Scanning with external program runnable from ACL is the most
> straightforward, and IMHO the best way of dealing with it. Hence my
> (original) question.
>
> Regards,
> Marcin Krol


Have you tried sa-exim? I think it will do everything you want. (Saying
that, I'm not sure what its status is as
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html gives me a 403 error.
However, I got an RPM from another site that is working fine with Exim
4.62)

Regards

Richard

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Richard Rogers
IT Development and Innovation Manager
Information Services, Staffordshire University


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