Re: [exim] Exim 4.82, Amavis, XFORWARD

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Author: thunder
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim 4.82, Amavis, XFORWARD
On 2014-05-26 23:27, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> On 26/05/14 06:52, thunder@??? wrote:
>> I am trying to use Amavis and Exim together. For the most part it is
>> all
>> working fine, except I have an issue that I cannot use the "policy
>> bank"
>> functionality of Amavis due to Exim apparently not supporting the
>> XFORWARD extension in its SMTP transport, this is covered in:
>>
>> http://www.ijs.si/software/amavisd/amavisd-new-docs.html#pbanks
>>
>> There was some discussion about this back in 2006 in the exim mailing
>> list, someone had written a hack to make it work:
>>
>> https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20060518.122248.5a0eb99f.en.html#exim-dev
>>
>>
>> Well, that's 2006.... Where are we at today?
>
> Reading that thread, there didn't seem to be a good reason to architect
> your filtering that way. I don't think that has changed since.
> --
> Cheers,
> Jeremy



Amavis is quite a popular choice for mail filtering, for obvious
reasons.

This is a bit of a let down for anyone wanting to use Amavis with exim.
Surely
I'm not the only person to hit this road block. Is there any workaround?

A.