Front End Mailer

[blindsp0t]

I have a client that uses exchange for their mail. I'd like to use exim to filter their mail then route it to their exchange server for delivery. I've seen an example of how to do it, but I'm not sure how to incorporate the example exim.conf into da's mail config - or if it's even possible for that matter. I think it would be a useful feature to have an option to accept mail for a virtual domain, filter it for spam, then send to a backend server. Anyone have ideas on how I can achieve this?

The example I found for MTA Hub : http://www.aminus.org/rbre/work/eximhub.htm

 

[nobaloney]

It's certainly doable. But their exim.conf file is designed for a single company. Ours is designed to work on a shared server.

I'm the guy who wrote, writes, and maintaines exim.conf for DirectAdmin, so I'm probably the guy to work on it, but it's not something I have time to study unless it becomes a commercial product.

Perhaps someone else will want to attack it; perhaps even you. Whatever you do, don't just install it on a working DirectAdmin server; be prepared for multiple testing rounds on a testbed server.

We can create it as a commercial project, either for just one client (you?) or for someone to sponsor it as a community project, if anyone is interested, but there would have to be a study/scope phase before we'd even know what it might cost.

Otherwise perhaps someone else will like to work on it. Surely it must be interesting to a few here.

Jeff

 

[blindsp0t]

I'm certainly not opposed to coming up with some cash to help along, I don't know that I can finance the whole thing. I'm very interested in DA getting more options and becoming a more robust product. Anyone else interested in this functionality? You could pretty easily sell it to your customers that host their own exchange servers. Exchange has no spam filtering to speak of, and exchange add-in software for anti-spam are expensive and unstable.

 

[nobaloney]

I'm moving the thread; it's now officially a Feature Request.

Usually Feature Requests are for features requested of DirectAdmin; if enough people like it then perhaps DirectAdmin staff will want to do it; otherwise I can do it as a commercial project, or perhaps someone else can.

Jeff