21696 – Add SA-Exim support to Exim with sa-exim USE variable

Bug 21696 - Add SA-Exim support to Exim with sa-exim USE variable

Summary: Add SA-Exim support to Exim with sa-exim USE variable

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement (vote)
Assignee:	Nick Hadaway

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Reported:	2003-05-26 01:30 UTC by Tim Schafer
Modified:	2005-05-19 06:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Tim Schafer 2003-05-26 01:30:05 UTC

I propose adding a new USE variable sa-exim.

The variable would be off by default.
When enabled it would cause the Exim ebuild to add the SA-Exim patch
to Exim source before building.

SA-Exim is an anit-spam patch for Exim that uses SpamAssassin.
It also adds support for tarpitting/teergrubing.
http://sa-exim.sf.net/


From googling it seems that SA-Exim patch can be used in addition
to exiscan/exiscan-acl patch
http://lists.merlins.org/archives/sa-exim/2002-October/000179.html
http://lists.merlins.org/archives/sa-exim/2002-October/000188.html

Assuming this is true, the sa-exim USE variable could be used with the
exiscan-acl USE variable I proposed in bug 21302

Comment 1 Christian Gut 2003-07-22 03:15:19 UTC

_that_ would be a great idea. using sa-exim for some time, but manual patching with portage suckz.

Comment 2 Nick Hadaway 2003-08-17 21:49:50 UTC

http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/

shows you how to integrate spamassassin with exim without patching exim.

exim-4.21 is on it's way into portage.

Comment 3 Nick Hadaway 2003-08-17 22:04:29 UTC

exiscan-acl for 4.21 supports spam filtering in the mean time.  I would expect to be adding sa-exim soon but it doesn't feel like the right time yet.  Upstream still seems to be working out issues with "teergrubing"... and hopefully they will have a point release upgrade for 3.0 soon...

Comment 4 Nick Hadaway 2003-08-17 22:36:32 UTC

exim-4.21 has been added to portage.  Please test.

Comment 5 Nick Hadaway 2003-08-21 01:59:09 UTC

exim-4.22 is currently in portage.   sa-exim support is coming.  The upstream author was very quick to making a current-exim-source-compatible tarball of sa-exim... version 3.1... This support will be added to the exim ebuild real-soon-like. :)

Comment 6 Nick Hadaway 2003-10-17 22:15:40 UTC

I am now adding exim-4.24 to portage.
exiscan-acl is doing well staying up to date with new releases.
I can't say the same for sa-exim

For now I am going to stick with exiscan-acl as the "gentoo way" for doing
spam filtering and virus scanning in exim unless someone can convince me
otherwise.

Comment 7 Tim Weber 2005-05-19 06:32:49 UTC

Please see also Bug 47106.