DirectAdmin Exim to Exchange using SMTP instead of POP?

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jlpeifer

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Currently all of my clients receive email to their Exchange servers from my DirectAdmin/Exim server via POP3 Connectors. This works OK especially since inbound email is screened by SpamBlocker prior to reaching the user's Exim mailbox (and then eventually reaches the Exchange mailbox).

There are situations, however, where it'd be nice to have inbound email screened by SpamBlocker then passed on immediately to a client's Exchange server via SMTP (instead of POP).

Is this possible? If so, how?

P.S. Yes, I know I could change the MX to point email directly to the Exchange box (completely bypassing the DirectAdmin server itself) but then I'd lose the benefit of using my DirectAdmin box as a spam filter before it reaches my client's server. I'd prefer to use my DirectAdmin box as a spam filter instead of implementing a spam filter server on my client's location or within their Exchange server itself (e.g. GFI MailEssentials).
 
Ask on the exim mailing list or hire someone to do it for you.
 
Hmmmm... was hoping for something a little more constructive. Seems that if I posted that question to the Exim list I'd get a response along the lines of "What's SpamBlocker?" Possibly followed by a deliberately obtuse suggestion like, "Ask the DirectAdmin forum."
 
Exactly what do you expect. This is not support for exim at all. If you want it to work a certain way you either pay someone who knows exim or ask on exim mailing list. No one is going to hold your hand and give you all the answers.
 
Since I'm the author of the exim.conf files used by DirectAdmin, both the older one which comes with DirectAdmin, and the newer one on my site (nobaloiney.net), I'll respond.

You can certainly turn exim, even exim on DirectAdmin, into a front end for Exhange. I didn't include the functionality into my file; I consider it outside the scope of a mailserver on a hosting platform. Note that I did not write the file for hire; I wrote it for myself, and offer it to the community.

But that's my opinion. You can certainly write anything you need, or hire someone to write it for you.

One way to do it would be to set up exim.conf to make it work as a relay only, for incoming email. Another might be to create custom routers. I'm not sure, because I haven't studied it.

Hire me, or someone else, or do it yourself.

Jeff
 
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