Author: Ian Zimmerman Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Exim4 skips SpamAssassin if attachments are too big
On 2017-09-01 21:49, Paul Lenz wrote:
> It seems to me, that using SpamAssassin is like shooting with guns
> against flies. I wrote my own SpamAssassin plugin which detects a big
> lot of spam, but actually I would be glad if I would not need
> SpamAssassin to run my plugin. I would say, 80% of all spam is rather
> easy to detect, and a small fast program could do it as well. Only the
> rest of 20% should be checked by SpamAssassin using Spamhaus block
> lists and other tricky stuff.
spamhaus is one of the least tricky methods, and easy to do without
spamassassin. Search the exim spec for 'dnslists'.
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