(forw) [linux-elitists] SpamAssassin at SMTP time with exim

Tue May 7 13:37:49 PDT 2002

> Another reason to be using exim, if you aren't yet :-)

Or sendmail, qmail or Postfix.
As a sendmail milter, it should be contacting a daemon and avoid
the startup costs of perl for each message (I fear having perl
startup each time on a site that gets 200k+ messages/day - fairly
low corporate volume).

Quoting Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com):
> This is very, very sweet.
> 
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> From: Marc MERLIN <marc at merlins.org>
> To: linux-elitists at zgp.org
> Cc: merlinizers at lists.alt.org
> X-Mailer: Some Outlooks can't quote properly without this header
> Subject: [linux-elitists] SpamAssassin at SMTP time with exim
> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 11:01:56 -0700
> 
> Spammers, no more!
> 
> mail from: merlin at gandalf
> 250 OK
> rcpt to: merlin at gandalf
> 250 Accepted
> data
> 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> From: merlin at gandalf
> To: merlin at gandalf
> Subject: $$$ Make Money Fast $$$ !!!
> 
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> This is not spam
> .
> 550-Heuristics guessed that this message was spam:
> 550 hits=14.8 required=1.0 trigger=12.0
> 
> 
> Another reason to be using exim, if you aren't yet :-)
> http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
> 
> Marc
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