As I continue to build my Exim gateway I've can see the question of a virus/spam quarantine on the horizon and would like to ask Exim expert their views.
I'm aware of AMAVIS(new) being a popular choice but it appears to have two distinct sets of views. There are those that sing its praises, there are those that scorn it. My aim with my Exim gateway is to offer a combination of per-domain and per-user settings as far as virus and spam scanning is concerned and given the excellent core features that Exim offers in terms of ACL's and message processing I can't see how Amavis would be particularly useful. I can see it has a place with less capable MTA's, but Exim appears very flexible as it is - but perhaps I'm confused? Can I achieve what Amavis(new) does with Exim without it? I'm happy to write specific helper scripts (Perl or shell) for tasks that will fit - but would that be waste of time? Ideally my 'per user' settings would allow a user to select if they block(drop at smtp time) || tag(change subject header) || quarantine || allow messages that either contain a virus or score above their own personally set spam score threshold. I can easily hold their 'settings' in a database against their username and make use of the plethora of Exim features to do most of this. The sticking point seems to be management of the quarantine ? I'm very interested in the views of experience people using Exim in production and I'm keen not to go the wrong way as I plan for this. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
