[Gllug] Spamassassin (again)

[Anthony Newman]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> Are you by chance not doing at-SMTP-time checking?   If you're not then, 
>> well, eww.
>>
>>
> 
> How do you mean? One set come in via fetchmail from Demon, another come
> via an Exim box (it's an old machine but rather than just chuck it I run
> it as the dedicated receiver for this email address - all the outbound
> stuff has to go via tiscali's SMTP server as so many ISP's routinely
> blacklist email sent from a dynamic IP which is what I have)

This is just confusing; you surely know if you're configuring mail 
servers that SMTP is used for transferring any mail, not just for 
sending it?

What Martin means is; if you are not doing scanning and spam refusal at 
the MX for the domain for which you receive mail, you're Doing It Wrong 
(TM).

That aside, I can only assume that the double scanning is a 
configuration error, and that Exim is much nicer and has inbuilt 
spam-scanning hooks, whereas sendmail should be taken out the back and 
dispatched post haste. May the MTA war ensue ;)


Ant


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