* Praveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-12 05:14]:
> Hi,
> From the man page it appears that spamd relies on
> static information about spam originators.
> Why not a more dynamic scheme ?.
No, it doesn't. please read the man page instead of
trolling.
>
> Why not run the content of the mail through a spam
> detector (like dspam), find the spam score and make
> decisions based on that. I know that spam detection
> is no where near perfect but it can be used for
> assigning a 'badness score' to a site(originator of
> email). So a site keeps getting this score and the
> average (per msg) exceeds a we black list the site for
> fixed duration. Similarly for white listing.
>
No. spamd does not do content filtering.
> 'Badness score' and also be assigned for other things,
> like trying to send to non-existant user (a typical
> spammer probe), absence of mx entry etc.
>
> A milter(sendmail/postfix) can be implemented for
> this.
> Thus decisions will be more dynamic and 'configuration
> free'.
As it is, spamd in greylisting mode (the default)
is very configuration free. but it sounds like you
actually don't run it, and are just trolling.
-Bob
