Re: Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Chris Hoogendyk wrote: Henrik K wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:07:16PM -0800, Steve Cloutier wrote: Hi ! Call me -- whatever :-) I took a look at SpamAssassin a while back, and (at least at the time), it seemed to scan the mailbox file after the message(s) were received

Re: Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Matt Kettler-3 wrote: .. Yes, we know that. Our tool is external too. The only big difference I see is your tool appears to be a quasi nonstandard milter for sendmail, that interacts with all phases of delivery. Personally, I use a combination of milter-greylist for filtering

Re: Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Jari Fredriksson wrote: I just wanted to come up with something that blocked spam at the protocol level (so the spammer gets an error!!!), That's all great.. but the reality may be that the spammer still get no error. ... H... Well, yes and no :-) Now, it is probably correct

Re: [spamassassin] Re: How to report 120,000 spams a day

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: On 08.03.08 18:28, Tuc at T-B-O-H wrote: Our mail server receives about 128K emails a day. Of those, 120K are absolutely known spam so I don't even run them through spamassassin. Of the 8K left, 6K are determined to be spams, and 2K are considered

Re: Whitelisting IP's

2008-03-08 Thread Steve Cloutier
Matt-123 wrote: I have a file that contains a list of all the IP's that have successfully POP3'ed there email within last 15 minutes. Its used for POPB4SMTP. Naturally the IP's in the file are constantly changing. /etc/virtual/pophosts Is there anyway to setup Spamassassin to

Yet another spam blocker?

2008-03-07 Thread Steve Cloutier
Hi ! Call me -- whatever :-) I took a look at SpamAssassin a while back, and (at least at the time), it seemed to scan the mailbox file after the message(s) were received. The program (again, at the time) was written in Perl. This whole process seemed somewhat inefficient, and also allowed