ANNOUNCE: mailwatch2rbl

[Gareth]

Version 0.5 has now been released which allows you to create any text
file and then run a command afterwards only if the contents of the file
has changed. This should make it usable by sendmail users and hopefully
any other system. An example of configuring postfix to directly access
the database is also included.

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 20:24, Gareth wrote:
> I have been chatting with Alistair Carmichael about a quick script he wrote
> to extract a list of IP addresses out of the mailwatch database which have
> only sent a number of spam emails and then automatically block them.
> 
> I have now created something which seems to be fully functional at least for
> me. Alistair had a problem where php did not like the database library I am
> using but I have never seen this before and have used it on various boxes
> with a very large range of php versions.
> 
> You can read basically how it works and download the current release from
> http://www.gbnetwork.co.uk/mailscanner/mailwatch2rbl/
> 
> The block table it generates is easy to use in Postfix and it can also
> generate a file compatible with rbldnsd. I am not sure what exim and
> sendmail can work with nativly but if someone would like to give me an
> example I will enable it to generate compatible files for them aswell.