ScamNailer update STILL not working

Robert Lopez rlopezcnm at gmail.com
Wed Jun 12 22:22:21 IST 2013


On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:
> ScamNailer gets the information about current data by doing a DNS lookup
> of a TXT record for emails.msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com. For over 6
> weeks, this has been returning "emails.2013-164.6", i.e. week 16, day 4
> update 6. It is currently week 23, day 0.
>
> I posted a patch at
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-May/100746.html>
> that works around this by guessing the current update, and it seems to
> work for me, but contrary to Matt Hampton's statement at
> <http://lists.mailscanner.info/pipermail/mailscanner/2013-May/100694.html>,
> the underlying issue of the TXT record for
> emails.msupdate.greylist.bastionmail.com not being updated is NOT FIXED.
>
> Does anyone care?
>
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Mark,
I also only have the 2013-164.6 as the most recent file and do care
about the problem of the file not being updated.
I confess to not trying your patch because I do not understand it.

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Robert Lopez


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