I just got done going over their discussion board, and the group developing it stated that the limited DNSRBL capabilities the program had has now been disabled and is no longer available on the current version. Their explanation is something to the effect that their Baysean filtering is so good that it somehow makes DNSRBL lookups obsolete. Great. Other users have written, asking the feature to be re-added. I seconded the motion. :-)
William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. 555 H St., Ste. C P.O. Box 155 Eureka, CA 95502-0155 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707.476.0833 ph > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rick Klinge > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > I don't think there is.. They use something called a gray list.. Shared > between all the nodes. Would be nice if there was a way to implement an > DNSRBL.. I have a perl script but don't know how to inject/sew it into the > process or code. > > ~Rick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > William Van Hefner > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 8:07 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > > > > I read all through the docs and did not find any support for > > popular DNSRBLs. > > > > > > William Van Hefner > > Network Administrator > > > > Vantek Communications, Inc. > > 555 H St., Ste. C > > P.O. Box 155 > > Eureka, CA 95502-0155 > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 707.476.0833 ph > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > > Randall Scott > > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 5:32 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > > > > > > > ASSP does support dnsbl's. Read the docs, its not that hard > > to setup. > > > > > > Randall Scott > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > William Van > > > Hefner > > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:34 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [IMail Forum] ASSP > > > > > > I saw someone mention the ASSP anti-spam software at > > > http://assp.sourceforge.net a day or two ago and decided to try it > > > out. > > > > > > After fiddling around with it for a few hours on a secondary mail > > > server, I can assure you that running this on your iMail box is > > > probably not a great idea if you really want to stop spam. The > > > problem? ASSP (unlike iMail 8.0+) > > > doesn't allow you to run checks on DNS based blacklists (or > > > DNSRBLs) at all. > > > If you run ASSP as a proxy server on the same machine as iMail, > > > it will make > > > iMail's own DNSRBL look-up feature useless, since it would > > only be doing > > > lookups on the IP address of your own mail server, not the > > address of the > > > originating sender. All your iMail box will do is a lookup of the > > > IP address > > > 127.0.0.1. > > > > > > If you run ASSP on another server, you will run into the > > same problem. > > > As soon as you put another server in front of iMail, all DNSRBL > > > look-ups become impossible. Personally, I depend on DNSRBLs like > > > SpamCop a LOT. They easily > > > block 50% or more of the spam hitting my server in the first > > > place, and is a > > > valuable first line of defense. Blocking spam by IP > > address, before it > > > traverses through memory and CPU hogging filters and rules, > > is always the > > > best way to go. > > > > > > ASSP does have some great features. I especially like the > > fact that it > > > allows you to treat certain (seeded) addresses as "honeypot > > addresses" > > > to collect info on spammers. I couldn't really tell what it > > did with > > > this data from the documentation though. If it didn't block iMail's > > > DNSRBL capabilities, I'd say that it would be a great > > add-on product > > > for iMail. As > > > it is now though, it only serves to cripple one of iMail's > > most powerful > > > anti-spam features. That alone makes the capabilities of > > ASSP's other > > > features a moot point. That's just my 2 cents though. > > > > > > > > > William Van Hefner > > > Network Administrator > > > > > > Vantek Communications, Inc. > > > 555 H St., Ste. C > > > P.O. Box 155 > > > Eureka, CA 95502-0155 > > > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > 707.476.0833 ph > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > Virus Scanned and Filtered by http://www.FamHost.com E-Mail System. > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > --- > [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] > > > --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
