Bug#774553: exim4: Do not scan outgoing mail for spam

[Rainer Dorsch]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.84-6
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Dear Maintainer,

I am running exim since a few years and scanned incoming and outgoing mails for spam, where outgoing does not make a lot of sense or even hurts. 
I was surprised to find out that disabling scanning outgoing mails is so simple.

It would have helped me, if the default config would have had something like

root at netcup:~# diff -u 40_exim4-config_check_data.orig 40_exim4-config_check_data
--- 40_exim4-config_check_data.orig     2015-01-04 10:17:58.316000000 +0100
+++ 40_exim4-config_check_data  2015-01-04 10:20:34.484000000 +0100
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
   #
   # See the exim docs and the exim wiki for more suitable examples.
   #
+  # do not run spam scanning on authentificated mails (=outgoing mails)
+  #   accept authenticated = *
+  #
   # warn
   #   spam = Debian-exim:true
   #   add_header = X-Spam_score: $spam_score\n\
root at netcup:~# 

Thanks,
Rainer

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.84 #2 built 21-Dec-2014 13:47:32
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2014
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2014
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl Expand_dlfunc GnuTLS move_frozen_messages Content_Scanning DKIM Old_Demime PRDR OCSP
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql sqlite
Authenticators: cram_md5 cyrus_sasl dovecot plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='internet'
dc_other_hostnames='netcup.bokomoko.de'
dc_local_interfaces=''
dc_readhost=''
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost=''
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='true'
dc_hide_mailname=''
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='maildir_home'
mailname:netcup.bokomoko.de

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.55
ii  exim4-base             4.84-6
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy     4.84-6

exim4 recommends no packages.

exim4 suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/drec: