Hello,
Michael L Griffin writes:
> I often receive email that is a few days / months / years "old"
> according to the email date 99.99% of which is SPAM.
>
> Now a thought, what would the benefit/negative be in denying
> incoming email "older" than say 7 days? I was thinking that denying
> at connection time would alleviate load on SpamAssasin (my resources
> are limited on a VPS).
>
> Any ideas on how best to do this? Pointers / examples greatly
> appreciated as always.
The following will do exactly what you are seeking.
First the bash script:
---[ Start: CheckDate ] ----
#!/bin/sh
#
# Check message age
#
# $1 - message date
# $2 - Max past age accepted
# $3 - Max future age accepted
export PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
# Date/time of Message
D=`date -d "$1" +"%s"`
# Current Data/time
N=`date +"%s"`
# Elapsed time, negative number a future dates
let E=$N-$D
# Age of message in days, negative numbers are future
let A=$E/86400
if [ $A -lt 0 ] ; then
let A=A*-1
if [ $A -gt $3 ] ; then
exit 2
fi
fi
if [ $A -gt $2 ] ; then
exit 1
fi
exit 0
--- [ End: CheckDate ] ---
Save this file in the /usr/exim folder as: CheckDate
Then make it executable.
Now for the Exim conf lines:
acl_check_data:
deny condition = ${if or
{{!def:h_Date:}{!def:h_Subject:}{!def:h_To:}}{yes}{no}}
message = Message does not conform to RFC2822 standard
deny set acl_m8 = ${run{/usr/exim/CheckDate "$h_date:" 30 3}}
condition = ${if eq {$runrc}{1}{yes}{no}}
message = Message too out of date
deny condition = ${if eq {$runrc}{2}{yes}{no}}
message = Message from the future
The conditions are one line only, wrapped by email client. This says to
deny any massage older then 30 days or any message 3 or more days in the
future. The numbers can be changed as desired. They are in DAYS referenced
from "today".
---
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