log spam

[Marc Lucke]

(so off topic - sorry to offend any purists): what I'd now like to do is 
say something like "you're banned for double the amount of time you were 
last time".


Marc Lucke wrote:
> and now everything becomes clear!  Very clever.  So in fact all I 
> would need to have done was to have returned "store forward <email 
> address>" and that would have done what I wanted.
>
> I was looking for a way to combine milter-greylist with fail2ban - 
> i.e. send me spam and you get banned for 4 hours (in my example) 
> instead of told do go away for 5 minutes.  I've decied to turn 
> milter-greylist off altogether and use fail2ban on a "you abuse me, I 
> block you" basis rather than assume everyone's the enemy to begin 
> with.  milter-greylist has the lag, but too (lol) it was pretty 
> successful and I like some good and varied spam samples to feed to SA.
>
> fail2ban is a poor name.  So far it hasn't failed to ban anything 
> (boom boom) :)
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>> In addition to what John told you, you can't use Custom Functions 
>> like this. A Custom Function takes the message object as its 
>> parameter, and returns a string (or number) giving the value you want 
>> for this MailScanner.conf setting for this message. So in "Spam 
>> Actions =", a Custom Function could return something like "store 
>> forward wibble at foobar.com". Of course a Custom Function can have side 
>> effects such as extra logging, but fundamentally it is just a way to 
>> calculate the value of a MailScanner.conf setting programmatically. 
>> It isn't an additional Spam Action, which is what you are trying to 
>> do with it.
>>
>> It's all a whole lot simpler than you are imagining.
>>
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 11/06/2010 07:50, Marc Lucke wrote:
>>> /etc/MailScanner/MailScanner.conf
>>> Spam Actions = &logspam store forward <email address>
>>>
>>> /usr/lib/MailScanner/MailScanner/CustomConfig.pm
>>> sub Initlogspam {};
>>> sub Endlogspam {};
>>> sub logspam {
>>>  my($message) = @_;
>>>  MailScanner::Log::InfoLog("MailScanner: spam: ".$message->{clientip});
>>> };
>>>
>>> this doesn't work.  Complains about @  If I put &logspam at the end, 
>>> it gets ignored.
>>>
>>> I want to log the ip address of the person sending me spam, store 
>>> the message and then forward it to my spam box.  Can I have my cake 
>>> and eat it to?  If so, how?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>> Marc
>>
>> Jules
>>
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