On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:56:37PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: | On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 12:57:59AM -0400, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > procmail can do things that exim can't (for example, changing a | > message via a filter, such as spamassassin, and then making delivery | > decisions based on the external program's output). | | With apologies for contradicting the exim guru, exim can do this with | a little help from the shell. My Exim filter sends any mail without a | spambayes header to a script, and then stops processing. The script | pipes the mail through spambayes and pipes the output from spambayes | into exim -bm. On this pass exim filters on the spambayes header and | delivers the mail to 'new', 'dubious' and 'spam' boxes as appropriate. | I handle stripping the adverts out of yahoo list traffic the same way.
| The fact that the message passes through exim twice is kind of clunky,
Uh-huh.
| but it works fine and is easy to set up.
I didn't mention that sort of workaround because it is more
complicated (violates the KISS principle) than the same task using a
program designed to do such things (such as procmail or maildrop), but
(FYI, FWIW) I do have one way of implementing such a kludge
(system-wide) documented at
http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin
-D
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