[Mimedefang] implementing spamass RBL checks in MD

[Lucas Albers]

Matt Cramer said:
> The SA RBL checks make quite a difference to the amount of spam I catch,
> so I wrote some code in my filter to perform the checks, score them the
> same as SA would (given both Bayes and networking enabled), and then
> modify the SA $report to reflect the tests.  I suppose a better way than
> what I do below would be to read /usr/share/spamassassin/20_dnsrbl.cf and
> 50_scores.cf on the fly, but this stuff hasn't seemed to change too
> frequently with the last few SA releases.
>
How is different then just using sa to score it and then reject based on
spam score?
I'm not understanding the signifigant difference between these two methods.
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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana