help fighting spam

Martin.Hepworth martinh at solidstatelogic.com
Wed Jan 17 17:10:40 CET 2007


Jon

I'd check you URI-RBLS are working (as I think I suggested on the
sa-users list ;-)

Also dcc/pyzor/razor and the SARE/fred rules from www.rulesemporium.com
are useful (can't remember if I already mentioned this..)


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Martin Hepworth
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Solid State Logic
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jon Bjorn Njalsson
> Sent: 17 January 2007 15:55
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: help fighting spam
>
> Greetings
>
> I have been recieving tons of spam with random subject like "how's
your
> ramrod", "+ 5 inches or money back" etc, all of them containing URL to
> random sites, but all sites resolve to the same ipaddress
216.40.47.17.
>
> I have written over 30 rules based on the domain name but I was
> wondering isn´t it possible to have SA do a lookup of the domain name,
> get the ipaddress, then lookup the ipaddress and check if that
ipaddress
> is listed in some rbl and score acordingly ?
>
> regards
> Jon
>
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