[Mimedefang] URIBL/SURBL support

Kelsey Cummings kgc at corp.sonic.net
Mon Nov 27 15:13:56 EST 2006


On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:16:55AM -0700, Richard Laager wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 10:13 -0500, Joseph Brennan wrote:
> > 
> > --On Monday, November 20, 2006 12:56 -0800 Kelsey Cummings 
> > <kgc at corp.sonic.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Has anyone written up generic URIBL or SURBL specific support for MD
> > > outside of using SpamAssassin?  Mind sharing?
> > 
> > 
> > First you have to parse the URL out of text.  That's fun.  This
> > works most of the time for plain text parts.
> 
> I use SpamAssassin's URL parsing for this. It's possible to do that
> without running the SpamAssassin tests. While complex, this makes a huge
> difference in terms of CPU power required.
> 
> However, why not just run the SURBL stuff via SpamAssassin?

Mostly because I don't have SpamAssassin installed on my MX servers where
MD is running and it is a lot of overhead for such a limited test.

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Kelsey Cummings - kgc at corp.sonic.net      sonic.net, inc.
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