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Re: Exim4, Clamav, SA-Exim, (was Re: SWEN isn't slowing down)



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On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 10:05:43PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
> Yeah, that's one option. I considered it, but the problem is, if you 
> feed the learner with tons of similar viruses, how good will it be to 
> kill spam...?

Bayesian filtering goes on what *you* consider spam, not the
traditional definition.

> Also, if you feed those to Vipul's Razor, what would it 
> mean for Razor....? 

Potentially, the virus infected messages get flagged as spam by razor,
which isn't neccisarilly a Bad Thing.

> I'm working on it right now, actually. I have just upgraded my mail 
> server to Exim4. I think I would recommend that to everyone. If you ask 
> for help on the Exim users list about Exim 3, people don't remember 
> what it was like running Exim 3 anymore, so you're quite lost... :-)

Which is really strange, since it's the same MTA, just different
layout of the configs which makes it easier to take advantage of the
more advanced features.

> What I've done is to install exim4-daemon-heavy and clamav-daemon, then 
> have a DATA ACL reject certain executables, then pass it to clamd if 
> that didn't do the trick. They are rejected in the SMTP dialogue, if I 
> got this right (somebody correct me if I'm wrong, ASAP :-) ), so the 
> bounce doesn't hit an innocent bystander.

I wouldn't reject arbitrarily on filenames but the rest sounds good.

> Before I run along to the sa-exim mailing list, has anybody here got it 
> working?

I've been curious on how to tie in virus scanning to sa-exim as well,
post it to this list if you figure it out.

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