[Mimedefang] implementing spamass RBL checks in MD

[Matt Cramer]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, Lucas Albers wrote:

> 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.

OK, maybe I am an idiot, but I thought MIMEDefang, when it called SA,
didn't do any of the network tests.  Am I wrong?


Matt

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