On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 at 17:12, Brent Clark via Exim-users < [email protected]> wrote:
> Good day Guys > > I would just like to double check something with the community. > > I would like to ask, how do you guys handle outgoing SPAM queue? > > So what happens is, we may have a client that runs a website (shared > hosting), and say it gets compromised (not the server itself), just the > app. > > Naturally we get in contact with the client and advise on best practice > etc, but this email is not about that, this is about the spam in Exims > queue that now needs to be dealt with. > > Currently what the poor support staff does is stop exim, then using > exipick / grep etc find the spam. > > The problem is, when Exim is stopped, then other clients app that need > to send mail, cant. > > The question I would like to ask is, what is the correct way to manage > mail in the queue, or if someone can give a suggestion, of removing all > spam in the queue. > > We tried stopping the exim queue runner but did not yield the results we > were expecting (Later googled revealed > https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/stop-the-exim-temporary.208812/). > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > Brent > > When spam is locally generated on the server itself, it gets very tricky. However, if this server has rspamd, you could use that to control spam (both inbound and outbound). -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254 7 3200 0004/+254 7 2274 3223 "Oh, the cruft." -- ## List details at https://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/
