SA-Exim

bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302

Hi,

is there a way to have a "portaged" patched exim (there's a use-flag for exiscan, but I haven't found anything about sa-exim
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html) without creating my own ebuild. There aren't any bugreports or forum-entries here, so I guess I'm the first person "requesting" such a patch/add-on.

Am I right there?

thx,
-fe
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NightSpirit · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2004 7:55 pm Post subject:

Isn't this just what you would get from following the instructions listed in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=83500?

I followed that excellent guide and have an exim mail server running all mail through spamassassin and clamav before routing it internally.
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bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302

nope. the differnce between sa-exim and "usual" spamassassin is that with sa-exim you can reject emails at SMTP-time, when your server really reads the email. The advantage is, that you will never see emails with for example .pif attachments or with a score greater $what_your_think_is_too_high

for more infos have a look at
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html

cheers
-fe
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NightSpirit · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:58 pm Post subject:

Ahh, well ok. I thought that was what the exiscan allowed you to do with regular spamassassin. I don't actually allow direct external SMTP access to exim anyways since I have no need to do that. All mail is grabbed using fetchmail and scanned at the time and rejected if it can be determined as spam or virus. Not sure what fetchmail does about that, maybe it bounces it, maybe it just deletes it.
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kellyk · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 4 Location: Canada

Exiscan does allow you to reject at SMTP time.

Check out the docs:
http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/

bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302

I know exiscan-acl's very well and maybe you should have a look here
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html

I also altered an ebuild for exim 4.21, which optinally installs sa-exim

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47106

-fe
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bin-doph · Guru Joined: 23 May 2003 Posts: 302