Folllow-up Test Code - Re: [Mimedefang] Potential for Businessmailservers to nothavereverse DNS

Kevin A. McGrail kmcgrail at pccc.com
Fri Oct 6 17:28:09 EDT 2006


> What works fine for me is to do this checks just before calling 
> SpamAssassin and add the result as headers to the mail that SpamAssassin 
> checks.
>
> This way I can have SpamAssassin rules scoring for things that looks like 
> dynamic or dul hostnames. So a dynamic looking host name in itself won't 
> stop a mail from beeing received, but it will increase the likelyhood of 
> the mail beeing rejected.
>
> (This kind of thing is why I patched mimedefang.pl so I can add my own 
> headers to SpamAssassins input.)

Jonas:

This mirrors my choice of implementation as well.

Regards,
KAM 




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