On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 17:12, Brent Clark via Exim-users <
exim-users@???> wrote:
> Good day Guys
>
> I would just like to double check something with the community.
>
> I would like to ask, how do you guys handle outgoing SPAM queue?
>
> So what happens is, we may have a client that runs a website (shared
> hosting), and say it gets compromised (not the server itself), just the
> app.
>
> Naturally we get in contact with the client and advise on best practice
> etc, but this email is not about that, this is about the spam in Exims
> queue that now needs to be dealt with.
>
> Currently what the poor support staff does is stop exim, then using
> exipick / grep etc find the spam.
>
> The problem is, when Exim is stopped, then other clients app that need
> to send mail, cant.
>
> The question I would like to ask is, what is the correct way to manage
> mail in the queue, or if someone can give a suggestion, of removing all
> spam in the queue.
>
> We tried stopping the exim queue runner but did not yield the results we
> were expecting (Later googled revealed
> https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/stop-the-exim-temporary.208812/).
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Regards
> Brent
>
>
When spam is locally generated on the server itself, it gets very tricky.
However, if this server has rspamd, you could use that to control spam
(both inbound and outbound).
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