[Pkg-exim4-users] Simple ClamAV Setup (Howto)

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:47:18PM -0500, Fred T. Hamster wrote:
> i'm a user of sa-exim also, and i adopted it at the time because it
> provided a way to reject email at smtp time rather than rejecting it
> once the server had already accepted the email from the sender.
> by rejecting email at smtp time, the spam sender hopefully thinks the
> address is no longer valid and will always be rejected.  if they ever
> edit their lists to remove dead addresses, then mine should eventually
> fall off their lists.
> at the time, i think that was the only way to do that (reject spam at
> smtp time).  does exim support that feature now?  i for one wouldn't
> mind removing an extra package if exim provides for this now.
> -fred

exiscan has existed quite for a long time, and has been integrated
into exim proper with version 4.50. The Debian exim4 packages had
exiscan patched in since version 4.22-2 dated August 2003.

Greetings
Marc

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