On Wed, 18 May 2005 16:23:48 -0500 "Jeffrey N. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use Spamassassin with Sendmail and I am thinking about going to > Exim. Does it make a difference to Spamassassin with mimedefang? I'm not fully sure of all the capabilities and implications of mimedefang, but a few comments that might be helpful: a) my HOWTO at http://www.timj.co.uk/linux/Exim-SpamAndVirusScanning.pdf has some (hopefully) helpful notes about using SpamAssassin with Exim. You can call SA directly from Exim including (optionally) making decisions about rejection at SMTP time. b) Exim has many powerful facilities for rejecting mail including MIME parsing functions, some of which may be an optional substitute for some of mimedefang's features, some of which may not. However... c) in general you can run ANY software (including mimedefang or SpamAssassin) aganist a message and make decisions based on the answer. You can use use arbitrary software as a transport filter for modifying the message. (some of the mimedefang featurelist looks like "modifying the message" to me, e.g. "add boilerplate text") d) the exim-users list over at exim-users@exim.org are pretty helpful at answering any Exim-specific questions :) Tim
