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Re: exim or postfix



Hi Craig,

> 2. postfix does support filtering during the SMTP transaction.  the difference
> is that the postfix author tells you up front that it is inherently problematic
> (for *ANY* MTA, not just postfix) because of the potential for SMTP timeouts if
> the filter takes too long to run (SpamAssassin, for example, could take ages to
> complete regardless of whether it's run from exim or postfix...especially if
> it's doing DNSRBL and other remote lookups), and he recommends that you don't
> do it.
> 
> other MTAs blithely ignore the potential problem and tell you to go ahead and
> do it.

well, sa-exim does have timeouts for that and will just hard terminate
the process if that's hit. So the point isn't fully valid as is.

-(snip)-

> i manage to avoid the problem by having good anti-spam/anti-virus rules (and a
> huge junk map and set of body_checks & header_checks rules) that it rejects
> about 99% of all spam during the SMTP session.  very little makes it through
> them to be scanned with amavsid-new/spamasssassin/clamav.  still, i sometimes
> think it would be nice to run SA at the SMTP stage.

-(snip)-

would it be possible to get the config sniplets of your server config as
it seems to be pretty efficient...?
Just as a reference like the exim4 config posted back in the other
thread or this one.

Thanks!

-- 
Best regards,
 Kilian

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