SMTP-time spam rejection by IP

[Denis Beauchemin]

Philip Waters wrote:

>Thank You.
>In doing my research CustomConfig IPBlock  was the closest I could find to
>what we wanted. I don't exactly understand yet how everything fits together
>(SpamAssassin, MailScanner with CustomConfig / IPBlock). I'm doing the
>research for our resident expert so I'll have to pass the information along
>to him. Thank you for the tip.
>
>We were hoping (and had heard) that someone had already developed such a
>script to do active scanning of IP Addresses. The SE Idaho chapter of ISSA
>has a member who passed the word on that this had been done.
>
>I don't think it would be too hard to develop something that did what we
>required. My concern is performance degradation.
>
>Thanks
>Phil
>  
>
Phil,

I wrote a script at about the same time Julian developed IPBlock.  Go 
to  http://www.while.homeunix.net/spamstorm/ to see if it could help you.

I run it in my crontab every 5 minutes on my MS servers.  I also use 
IPBlock on the same servers.

Denis

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