Exim Spam Filter Problem

Exim Spam Filter Problem

[Kevin Cobb]

Can anyone possibly enlighten me on building a spam filter in Exim 3.13
under Redhat 6.2?   I have painstakenly rebuilt a Linux box recreating the
functions of a Debian 2.1 box into a Redhat box over the last week.  For
some reason, the spammers filter file did not translate over.   In the
exim.conf I did call sender_reject = /etc/spammers (where my filter file
resides)  I noticed in one readme on the web they mention (sender_reject =
partial-dbm;/etc/spammers) but am not sure if I should "build a dbm" file or
add that to the line to parse the spammers file.   Any hints on what I might
do?   The file soley consists of lines such as:
*@badmail.com:
*.badmail.com:
and so on.

I apologise for probably a stupid question, but have been thrown into the
linux arena in the last week due to a dying debian box which was the
forefront to the company.  I'm an MS guy, who now has the ultimate respect
for those that build linux boxes with dns, exim, and ipfwadm into ipchains
(I never appreciated the enable IP routing tab in NT until now).  I would
surely appreciate any ideas you may be able to provide.   I devoured the man
and see that the sender_reject should do the trick, but added one of my html
accounts to the spammers list, restarted the server to ensure exim would
reload, and sent mail inbound.   Unfortunately I recieved it.  In the debian
environment, it would immediately freeze until I deleted it in the
/var/spool/exim/input directory.

Thanks very much for your time!

Kevin Cobb
kcobb@east.delfin.com