[Mimedefang] RE: Is hyphen a valid character ??

[Troy Carpenter]

I saw that email come across my system as well.  It was rejected based
on a lookup to relays.osirusoft.com in my filter_recipient routine.

I have found that using the DNS blacklists as well as SpamAssassin has
greatly cut down on my SPAM traffic.

Add the following to your filter and restart MIMEDefang with the
appropriate command line options (that is, tell MIMEDefang that you want
to use filter_relay):

sub filter_relay {
    my ($ip, $hostname) = @_;

    # Check a few online databases
    if (relay_is_blacklisted($ip, "relays.ordb.org")) {
	return (0, "Relay $hostname refused by blackhole site
relays.ordb.org. Please see http://www.ordb.org/faq/#why_rejected");
    }
    if (relay_is_blacklisted($ip, "list.dsbl.org")) {
	return (0, "Relay $hostname refused by blackhole site
list.dsbl.org.  Please see http://dsbl.org");
    }
    if (relay_is_blacklisted($ip, "relays.osirusoft.com") ) {
	return (0, "Relay $hostname refused by blackhole site
relays.osirusoft.com.  No further information");
    }
    return (1, "ok");
}

Troy


---- Original Message ------
Howdy all,

I have blacklisted *@*.dont-miss-this-deal.com in the local.cf but it
slips right through anyway. Does SpamAssassin whitelist/blacklist not
accept a hyphen in the local.cf file as a valid character ??

/etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf
blacklist_from *@*.dont-miss-this-deal.com

My spam-accepted.log shows the following entry:

**********************************************
Tue Sep 17 03:47:52 2002
mail35.dont-miss-this-deal.com  66.216.111.53
To: dgrant at vixel.com
From: bounce-32970885-396 at mail35.dont-miss-this-deal.com
Subject: Your Favorite Television Series Now Available on DVD or VHS
Hits: 9.5
X_LIST_UNSUBSCRIBE,X_X_PRESENT,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,FOR_FREE,FULL_REFUND,NO
_OBLIGATION,COPYRIGHT_CLAIMED,WEB_BUGS,MAILTO_LINK

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