How To setup exim + exiscan-acl + SpamAssassin + clamav +...

baraka · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

Hi guys, i try to make exim works first without spam and anti-virus system, till now i was not able to send outside the world email neither receive (i have a mx record set to my mail server). The real annoying problem is pehaps i have log_file_path=syslog i was have notice no /var/log/exim/ files.

What can be happening? i need full logs to know what happening :/

baraka · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 3

Zebbeman · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

I'm not sure if this is correct, but I think you cannot comment out never_users anymore. If it still works, you have to comment out # never_users if you are running Exim as root. I had a similar problem running exim as root after an update, so I changed from pam to sasl.

Pam needs Exim to be runned as root, sasl dont.

catman__ · n00b Joined: 14 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

hi i want to bounce incomming mail with exim that are not used. With other words how can i bounce emails except the email adresses that i use.

tnx

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BakaO · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 74

Hello,

first, i would like to thanks you all for making gentoo the best distro !

Thanks Cataclysm !

I have a question, what should the spam become once it is detected has spam ?

Is it deleted ? so why we can change the title with ***** SPAM ***** ?
Or maybe it is delivered but marked as deleted ?

One more : for my house, i configure fetchmail -> exim -> spammasssin / clamv -> maildir -> courier-imap

OK but when i look at the log, when a spam is find, exim tell me that it can't find the 'FETCHMAIL-DEAMON' user

is it normal ?

Thanks for all.

rex123 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 272

I'm running a very similar set-up to the one in this how-to, on a server with about 10 mail users. I found that spamassassin works miles better (and it's really amazingly good) if you enable bayesian rules. I have one bayesian database for the whole server. The way to set this up is to create a user, with a home directory, and use sa-learn as that user. I have a user called spamd.

Then change the spamd part of exim.conf to something like this:

McB4ne · n00b Joined: 25 Aug 2004 Posts: 17

batzee · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 105

Could anyone who has successfully setup exim for smtp auth + relaying for authenticated clients only + no problems with never_users and exim_users please post how this can be done? If sasl really is the only way, could someone explain how to configure this?

thanks!

rex123 · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 272

batzee · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Apr 2004 Posts: 105

Thanks for your help - now one more question: I am subscribed to some more or less high-volume mailinglists, each of them is filtered to a dedicated folder. Now what I would like to have is some tool which deletes old messages from these mailinglists folders automatically, maybe in a logrotate-like fashion (put old messages in an archive and zip it, delete the oldest of these archives each time).

Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

BakaO · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 74

Hello,
I have a big question : here is how my server is configured :

1 computer (my server) is installed with courier-imap + fetchmail + exim + spamassasin

Fetchmail gather for me 6 mail box et for my sister 2 mail box.

Everything is ok : exim accept mail from fetchmail in local, and let me send mail (smtp) with a computer in the local network.

But (here is my problem) : i want to enable auth smtp for let me use my server everywhere inthe world, but it this time, fetchmail is blocked (it don't use auth).

So : is there a thing do change in my exim conf file to let smtp in local without auth, or everything else ?

thanks.

Golbez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 96

hey batzee, did that setup work, cause I know the exact problems you are having and feel your pain

Zebbeman · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

marcelser · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 99

Hi Everyone,

I setup exim, clamav,spamassasin and courier-imap as described in this guide. Now I saw that there's a mailfilter called clamassassin. What do I have to change in exim.conf tu use clamassasin filter instead of clamav? As I'm a totally Exim newbie it would take me days to figure out how to include clamassasin.

Thanks for any help on this subject.

Golbez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 96

marcelser · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 99

Golbez · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 96

marcelser · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Sep 2004 Posts: 99

Do you use the newest versions of Exim and SASL? I found out that different versions may require different configurations. The example I gave below should work with the newest version, at least it does for me. This is what my exim_main.log shows when sending a mail:

Zebbeman · n00b Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 69

Golbez:
This is how I set it up:
#/etc/exim/exim.conf:
begin authenticators
plain:
driver = plaintext
public_name = PLAIN
server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$2}{$3}}{1}{0}}

login:
driver = plaintext
public_name = LOGIN
server_prompts = "Username:: : Password::"
server_condition = ${if saslauthd{{$1}{$2}}{1}{0}}

#/etc/conf.d/saslauthd:
SASLAUTHD_OPTS="${SASLAUTH_MECH} -a shadow"

Reepicheep · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 10

Hey I thought I would through this into the mix.. To get auth to use the local users I use courier authdaemond socket without running exim as root.

I just set my server_condition to :

PLAIN :

dUSk · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 15

sleepingsun · Guru Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 458 Location: Bosnia

I instal and follow instruction but when i wont to start exim i get this error !

doublehp · Guru Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 473 Location: FRANCE

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