Thanks for the advice.  Just using default configuration, has reduced
amount of spam by around 85%.  After using policyd-weight to reject
spam, I don't see much of a use in having rejection functionality in
dspam.  It looks like very few spams are coming to dspam.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:27 AM, Steve<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:22:49 -0700
>> Von: "Michael Watkins" <[email protected]>
>> An: [email protected]
>> Betreff: Re: [Dspam-user] RBL Configuration
>
>> On Mon, August 3, 2009 11:00, Steve wrote:
>> > btw: Did you use the Geo::IP patch from policyd-weight page or did you
>> coded one by yourself?
>>
>> In fact I was in a hurry (for some reason at the time nerd.dk was failing
>> left and right for me) and had used the Geo:IP patch linked from the
>> policyd-weight page.
>>
> The code from the original policyd-weight page has an issue (from my 
> viewpoint) and I would replace the checking with this here:
> ---------------
> ## GeoIP check ###############################################################
>    my $i;
>    if (($rate < $REJECTLEVEL) && ($ip ne ""))
>    {
>        if (scalar(@geoip_score) > 0)
>        {
>            my $country = $geoip->country_code_by_addr("$ip");
>            if(defined($country))
>            {
>                for($i=0; $i < @geoip_score; $i += 4)
>                {
>                    if($country eq $geoip_score[$i])
>                    {
>                        my $score = $geoip_score[$i+2];
>                        if ($score != 0) {
>                            $RET      .= ' IN_'.$geoip_score[$i+3].'='.$score;
>                            $rate     += $score;
>                        }
>                    }
>                    else
>                    {
>                        my $score = $geoip_score[$i+1];
>                        if ($score != 0) {
>                            $RET      .= ' 
> NOT_IN_'.$geoip_score[$i+3].'='.$score;
>                            $rate     += $score;
>                        }
>                    }
>                }
>            }
>        }
> ---------------
>
> The two main differences compared to the original code are the two if 
> conditions at the beginning. The first one ensures that the code only runs if 
> the score is not already above the reject level and the second one checks if 
> you have at least one check statement inside @geoip_score.
>
> Since the check is so fast I really don't see a big problem in running the 
> Geo::IP stuff even if one should be already above the reject level. So first 
> condition could be removed but the second should be checked regardless of the 
> current reject score. I mean: What is the point calling Geo::IP if you are 
> using no checks at all?
>
> You told me you are a speed freak so you should add those two conditions to 
> your original code. Would make IMHO policyd-weight more portable to systems 
> where one might have Geo::IP installed but not using it.
>
>
>> I'm glad this little discussion of Geo:IP bore some fruit for you Steve.
>>
> I will look how well this works here and will submit a patch to the 
> policyd-weight SF page. Maybe they will include it in future releases?
>
>
>> Best regards
>> Michael
>>
> Steve
>
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