[Mimedefang] surbl

[Mark Sheppard]

On 2004-04-13 (Tuesday) at 10:28:28 -0600, Nels Lindquist wrote:
> On 13 Apr 2004 at 11:52, Michael Faurot wrote:
>
> > In article <000701c42106$eab30e20$17b23992 at umcrookston.edu> you wrote:
> >
> > > It depends what you mean by "tried this with MIMEDefang".
> >
> > Literally that.  Is anyone currently using one of the SURBL plugins with
> > SpamAssassin in a MIMEDefang environment?
>
> Yes.  It's effectively not much different from a DNSBL check, so all
> the usual MIMEDefang caveats for enabling those apply.
>
> So far it's been extremely effective, triggering on ~60% of caught
> spam with zero false positives.

I'm getting good results too.  Very useful at the moment, hopefully
it'll stay that way.  Being a SpamAssassin test the score can always
be tweaked in the future if spammers manage to make it less reliable.

Mark.