MAPS RBL+ worth it?

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Tue Jul 16 13:52:30 IST 2002


Remember that this won't give you figures showing the improvement made by
having 1 particular RBL, as it increments some/all of the counters for 1
message if it was spotted by more than 1 RBL.

At 12:38 16/07/2002, you wrote:
>Hello Peter,
>
>Thanks for the script. There's a small error in analog4mailscanner.pl:
>$TotalOsurisoft++ should be $TotalOsirusoft++
>
>I am using exim and have my mailscanner logs seperated from the
>exim/mailserver logs. I changed to script to calculate the number of
>scanned e-mails from the mailscanner log only:
>
>while(<LOG>) {
>   chomp;
>   if (/mailscanner/) {
>     $TotalMails += $1 if /Scanning (\d+)/;
>     $TotalViruses += $1 if /found (\d+) viruses in/i;
>     if (/is spam according to/) {
>       $TotalSpam++;
>       $TotalMonkeys++                   if /Infinite-Monkeys/;
>       $TotalOsirusoft++                 if /osirusoft\.com/;
>       $TotalORDB_RBL++                  if /ORDB-RBL/;
>       $TotalSPEWS++                     if /SPEWS/;
>       $TotalWIREHUB_DNSBL++             if /WIREHUB-DNSBL/;
>       $TotalRFC_IGNORANT_IPWHOIS++      if /RFC-IGNORANT-IPWHOIS/;
>       $TotalRFC_IGNORANT_DSN++          if /RFC-IGNORANT-DSN/;
>       $TotalRFC_IGNORANT_POSTMASTER++   if /RFC-IGNORANT-POSTMASTER/;
>       $TotalRFC_IGNORANT_ABUSE++        if /RFC-IGNORANT-ABUSE/;
>       $TotalRFC_IGNORANT_WHOIS++        if /RFC-IGNORANT-WHOIS/;
>       if (/SpamAssassin/) {
>         $TotalAssassinScore += $1+($2/10) if /score=(\d+)\.(\d+),/;
>         $TotalAssassin++;
>       }
>     }
>   }
>}

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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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