On Fri, 19 Jun 2009, Chip M. wrote:
3. use a country of origin/route plugin
#3 is somewhat controversial, and if implemented must be done
VERY carefully.
I've been looking into country-based IP blocking and it seems to boil down
to two choices:
1) A Spamassassin Plugin named 'relaycountry', but it seems to require
addtional installation both of the plugin and a separate module named
'IP:Country'.
2) A DNSBL formatted online reference at countries.nerd.dk - for which I
would just have to code a custom DNSBL lookup.
Question: Would users here recommend either one of these over the other?
If the former, can someone direct me to a nice 'howto'? I've never used
CPAN, so would need a step-by-step guide for installing that module, as
well as installing the plugin. Lucky me, I'm on 3.2.5-1.... :)
FYI - I have a user-friendly mechanism to allow per user opt-in for
features like this (currently allowing the option to block URI's
advertsiting .cn or .ru sites....).
Thanks in advance!
- Charles
