Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

From: Chris Bannister (mockingbird_at_ihug.co.nz)
Date: 07/21/05

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    On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 01:17:46AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
    > On (19/07/05 17:38), John Hasler wrote:
    > > Clive Menzies writes:
    > > > I'm am online 24/7 but the process (as I understand it) by which mail is
    > > > collected (fetchmail) is via smtp.
    > >
    > > The originating host connects to your ISP's server via SMTP and delivers
    > > the email. Your ISP's server accepts it, terminates the connection, and
    > > puts the email in your mailbox there at the ISP. Fetchmail then fetches
    > > the email from that mailbox via POP or IMAP. It then delivers the message
    > > to Exim via SMTP. If Exim then rejects the email, what do you expect
    > > Fetchmail to do about it?
    > >
    > > Rejecting spam at SMTP time only works if you have your own domain, IP, and
    > > mailserver. Then the spammer's machine connects directly to Exim on your
    > > host and sa-exim can send him a rejection.
    >
    > See. I told you I am new to all this ;)

    Ok. I have downloaded exim4-daemon-heavy, spamassassin, spamc

    And have been playing around. I set up mutt using the example in the
    spamassassin package, + procmail with spamc entries

    and when I hit R (macro index R "!/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync") my poor
    laptop (133Mhz 49M -- don't laugh I got it as a 'brick' for $12.00 NZD)
    almost died, killed postgres, a vim session I didn't realise I had open
    and 2 bash shells. :-(

    I sent a local email as a test and spamd had a fit for about 10sec. I
    downloaded 6 emails via fetcmail from my isp and the harddisk had a fit
    for about 20mins!! I hate to think what would happen if I d/l 200
    messages, which is about normal for a day.

    I will happily purge them now. I didn't even get to feed a spam through :-(

    But I will look at some lightweight altenatives, if there is such a
    thing. 

    -- 
Chris.
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