Bug#774553: exim4: Do not scan outgoing mail for spam

Alexander Wirt formorer at debian.org
Wed Jul 12 20:59:22 UTC 2017


On Sun, 04 Jan 2015, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> On 2015-01-04 Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
> > Package: exim4
> > Version: 4.84-6
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
> 
> > Dear Maintainer,
> 
> > I am running exim since a few years and scanned incoming and
> > outgoing mails for spam, where outgoing does not make a lot of sense
> > or even hurts. 
> [...]
> 
> I tend to disagree here. - Scanning outgoing mails to avoid spreading
> viruses sent by infectected users makes sense.
jftr, it dies hurt to add the spamassassin report to outgoing mails. Those
mails does are rfc2822 conform any more. Debian listserver will discard such
mails. SA Report should not get added to mail leaving the server.

Alex - with its listmaster hat on



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