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Re: Rejecting spam and viruses at SMTP time
From: Magnus Bäck (magnus
dsek.lth.se)
Date: Tue May 02 2006 - 23:53:32 CDT
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On Wednesday, May 03, 2006 at 04:46 CEST,
Paul Johnson <baloo
ursine.ca> wrote:
> I'm looking to replace my existing exim setup with postfix for ease of
> maintainability reasons. One thing I would like to be able to do in
> Postfix that I currently do in Exim is scan for spam and viruses with
> SpamAssassin (spamd called by spamc for the receiving user) and clamav
> (clamd) and reject it with a 500 after DATA (and I am aware that this
> is counter-indicated by the RFCs).
Your idea is fundamentally flawed. How are you supposed to handle
multi-recipient messages? You can only give one status code per message.
> Amavis seems like a good start, but it doesn't call spamc for the
> appropriate user.
Is that really important?
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Magnus Bäck
magnus
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