Hi, I would like to figure out how to have exim use the local users' spamassassin preferences. My understanding is that spam filter settings are individual - one user's spam is another user's ham. Hence, a site-wide spam filter may be too generic. Since individual users have no input into site-wide settings, I need a way to include individual settings.
I want to set up the system so that users get email by using fetchmail through cron or a script. I figure that I could speed things up further, from the end-user perspective, by checking for spam and transferring it into individual spam directories while mail is going through the delivery process, instead of having each user call spamassassin for each email through a filter in their MUAs. I know I can speed things up by deleting spam outright, but nobody wants to lose mail to false positives. So, it seems best to check for spam, separate it from other mail, and then let users review their spam and use sa-learn on their own stuff. I am currently using the exim4 and spamassassin from unstable on a home lan. There are five users, who each download boat-loads of mail from IPs either via fetchmail or directly through their MUAs. They then use spamassassin through indivudual MUA filters. Direct lan emailing also works fine. It may also be important for any filtering to point out that except for local lan mail, user names and email addresses usually do not match. I have been looking online and through the doc files, esp. usr/share/doc/exim4-daemon-heavy/exiscan-acl-examples.txt and exiscan-acl-spec.txt., but I think I am becoming more confused than enlightened, so I hoped people here might share their wisdom and experiences regarding the following questions. Exim and its configuration have been debianized, so are there any recommended debian ways to handle this? If I use exiscan-acl can I set multiple users or use a regular expression to indicate the proper user in a "spam= " line? Some options I have found include running mail through exim twice. Is this a bit complex|wasteful-of-resources|kludgy? Would setting up a (pop|imap) server help in any way? Should I use procmail (although, many people on exim-users seem to find procmail inferior to exim's filters)? Can this even be done in exim, maybe in conjunction with ~/.forward files? Is my current method best left as is? Is there something else|better that I am missing? Thanks, Jim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
