On Fri, 27 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can I use spam assassin (or another program) as a stand alone program to > analyse what proportion of spam is in my mail spool?
Not easily, because the spool isn't in a standard format understood by software other than Exim. I don't know of a plausible way of measuring your spam throughput without installing full-blown filters configured to just classify email (not block it) but this will not help your servers to breathe more easily! The only way to avoid load problems caused by spam is to increase your servers' capacity or to block spam at SMTP time. > Also what options are available for limiting mail coming from a certain > host? I committed a patch that adds a ratelimit ACL condition, which will probably let you do what you want. The patch should apply to 4.51 OK. The documentation for the feature is near the top. http://www.cus.cam.ac.uk/~fanf2/hermes/doc/antiforgery/exim-ratelimit.patch Your solution would look something like: MAXRATE = somenumber / sometime FAST = acl_m0 # in the acls warn ratelimit = MAXRATE / strict set FAST = yes # in the routers divert_fast: driver = manualroute condition = $FAST route_data = divert.host.name Tony. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ ${sg{\N${sg{\ N\}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}}\ \N}{([^N]*)(.)(.)(.*)}{\$1\$3\$2\$1\$3\n\$2\$3\$4\$3\n\$3\$2\$4}} -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
