[Pkg-exim4-users] Exim configuration values not accepted

Marc Haber
Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:09:50 -0000

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 08:56:26PM -0400, Haines Brown
wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 04:22:47PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 11:39:42PM -0400, Haines Brown
wrote:
> > > > You need to run exim4-daemon-heavy. And you need to adapt
your ACLs.
> > >
> > > I was not clear what you meant by "adapt" my ACLs.
> >
> > Because they are not even scanned.
>
> I don''t understand. If a message is assigned a spam score, must it
not
> have been scanned?

How do you see that the message is assigned a score?

> > The wiki front page has a link to
> > http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/EximContentScanning which has much more
> > documentation like that. How many seconds did you spend in searching?
>
> I spent hours pouring through this, the FAQ and other documents. The
> best I could figure out was to add this to
> /etc/exim4/conf.d/40_exim4-config_check_data:
>
>
> # put headers in all messages (no matter if spam or not)
> warn  spam = nobody:true
>       add_header = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)
>       add_header = X-Spam-Report: $spam_report
>
> # add second subject line with *SPAM* marker when message
> # is over threshold
> warn  spam = nobody
>       add_header = Subject: *SPAM* $h_Subject:
>
> # reject spam at high scores (> 6)
> deny  message = This message scored $spam_score spam points.
>       spam = nobody:true
>       condition = ${if >{$spam_score_int}{120}{1}{0}}
>
> But messages over a score of 6 are not rejected.

Your code rejects messages over a score of 12. I don''t see any
"6"
outside of the comments.

> > Exiscan has exactly nothing to do with a system filter.
>
> I didn''t mention Exiscan. I thought it had been replaced by
> EximContentScanning. The document you directed me to seems largely to
> do with Exiscan.

Exim Content Scanning _IS_ exiscan. The only difference is that it
does not need to be patched in any more. Can the package description
of exim4-daemon-heavy be clarified in this direction?

Greetings
Marc

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