Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

[Chris Bannister <mockingbird@ihug.co.nz>]

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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