On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 04:15:05AM -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
> One of the best ways to detect spam is to look up the links within the 
> spam against URI blacklists like Spam Assassin does. But SA is slow and 
> bulky and I'd like to just reject at connect time just like I do with 
> other host based blacklists.
> 
> So - I'd like to suggest a feature. It would be an extension of content 
> scanning but something that would find the links in a message, look them 
> up against various URI blocklists, and cache the lookups just like other 
> lookup results are cached. I think this would be a very strong feature 
> to put into Exim for spam control.

I have so far considered spamassassin's approach to blacklist as a safer
option.  As I understand it that a single rule in Spamassassin is not
supposed to allocate enough points to categorise the mail as spam.  It
should be a combination of factors.

How would you ensure that bona fide email does not get rejected by Exim
using URI blacklists?

Regards
Johann
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Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch

     "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain."     
                   Philippians 1:21 

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