[6bone] RBLcheckd (was Re: Nothing is sacred...)

[Tim Chown]

We've developed MailScanner here (www.mailscanner.info).  It's very
popular, and allows SpamAssassin and other tools to be bolted in.

The question is how best to handle RBLs/etc in a dual-stack environment.

We'll have a think - proxying seems appropriate.

Tim

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:54:44PM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> Everyone has a different peg and a different shaped hole to fit it when it
> comes to MTA's and anti spam solutions.
> 
> Here's mine:
> 	
> 	http://FreeDaemonConsulting/tech/spam.php
> 
> In short, relaydb gets fed headers (being told this is a good message or spam)
> and ends up with a list of good and bad relays.
> 
> More info about relaydb is available at:
> 
> 	http://www.benzedrine.cx/relaydb.html
> 
> Feed this to the list fed into 'spamd(8)' on OpenBSD and you can block
> addresses via pf.
> 
> I've a local diff set to update, but those interested I'll mail you with it
> to enable 'spamd' in OpenBSD to deal with IPv6.
> 
> More info about spamd is available at:
> 
> 	http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=spamd
> 
> While I applaud any efforts to develop a list of IPv6 known spam hosts and/or
> networks, I would want the ability to over-ride any settings as pertained to
> my local settings.  So long as there exists an automated way to retrieve any
> such lists, I can format them appropriately locally, and use spamd to block
> them.
> 
> For anyone who wishes to get a demonstration of spamd in action, feel free to
> telnet to 66.210.106.28 port 25.  It's not one of my mx hosts, therefore it
> gets redirected to spamd automagically ;-)
> 
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Todd Fries .. todd@fries.net
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
> (last updated 2003/03/13 07:14:10)
> 
> Penned by Pim van Pelt on Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 06:50:05PM +0200, we have:
> | Hi Greg, John, Cory, Dean, others,
> | 
> | Greg wrote:
> | | I can't speak for anyone else, but I would definitely be interested in it.
> | | I use postfix as my MTA, and didn't see you mention it, but I suspect that
> | | it would probably be fairly easy to integrate.
> | 
> | Sabri has opened a sourceforge project (it was approved swiftly) and we're 
> | now organizing things in that environment. I had some feedback from Dean
> | Strik who maintains the unofficial (or?) IPv6 patches to postfix. He
> | promised to look into patching the rbl client into that MTA. We already
> | have a working patch for Qmail and a Sendmail milter program, as I said. 
> | They'll be packaged and delivered seperately in a seperate tarball/CVS 
> | module.
> | 
> | I'm highly enthusiastic wrt the amount of positive feedback I received
> | on this! It definately motivates Sabri and me to push things further :-)
> | 
> | Let me gete back to you on the status at end of this week/somewhere next 
> | week.
> | 
> | Thanks and groet,
> | Pim
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