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Exim script now checks MIME attachments
by Jeff Chan 02 May '06

02 May '06

Erik Mugele reports that he has added MIME support to his Exim script for checking messages against SURBLs: "I have released a new version of my Exim Perl script. In conjunction with the proper Exim configuration, the script will now check for blacklisted domains in URLs in decoded MIME attachments (i.e. base64). Details at: http://www.teuton.org/~ejm/exim_surbl/ " Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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milter-uri.pl is a Perl Sendmail milter
by Jeff Chan 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Steve Freegard of Fort Systems Ltd. reports that milter-uri.pl is a basic Sendmail milter written in Perl using Sendmail::PMilter and SpamAssassin libraries. http://www.fsl.com/support/milter-uri.pl By default it uses "the 20_uri_tests.cf rules file (so it is relatively light) to strip the URI's from a message and then check them against" SURBLs. Other SpamAssassin rules should be configurable. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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MEFilter and milter-link add SURBL support
by Jeff Chan 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Two applications add SURBL support to Sendmail and MailEnable respectively: Anthony Howe of SnertSoft reports that his milter-link/0.1 for Sendmail "extracts URLs from the message body (text, HTML, and/or MIME encoded)" and checks them against SURBLs, or after domain resolution against RBLs. Written in C, milter-link does on-the-fly MIME decoding without using temporary files. http://www.snertsoft.com/sendmail/milter-link/ Martyn Keen reports that his MEFilter, a bolt-on for the MailEnable mail server, adds beta SURBL support. Test results are very favorable. http://www.mefilter.com/ Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Welcoming new public name server
by Jeff Chan 09 Mar '06

09 Mar '06

We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public SURBL name server b4.surbl.org administered by: Alice's Registry, Inc. Without our public nameservers and the help of their administrators, SURBLs would not be possible. Our thanks to all of them! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Exim SURBL Script Updated
by Jeff Chan 21 Feb '06

21 Feb '06

Erik Mugele reports: __ I have finished a new version of the embedded Perl script that can be used by Exim to do SURBL filtering. This release more closely follows the SURBL Implementation Guidelines. In particular it makes use of the ccTLD list provided on the SURBL website. A good portion of the script was rewritten to make it more efficient and to do far fewer lookups against the SURBL nameservers. This also means less processing/waiting on mail servers running the script. Downloads, instructions and details can be found at http://www.teuton.org/~ejm/exim_surbl __ Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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be.surbl.org list removed from service
by Jeff Chan 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

Per the announcement a few months ago, be.surbl.org has been removed from service. Please use ws.surbl.org instead. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Notlong.com redirection service protected by SURBLs
by Jeff Chan 19 Nov '05

19 Nov '05

Eric Hammond says that his Notlong.com redirection service "has been protected by SURBLs since July 2004." Nice going Eric! http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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SURBLs help protect TinyURL
by Jeff Chan 18 Nov '05

18 Nov '05

Kevin Gilbertson reports that he has been using SURBLs for "about a year now" to protect his popular redirection site TinyURL.com from abuse by spammers and phishers. TinyURL joins MetaMark Shorten and SnipURL in using SURBLs to protect their redirection services. Thank you to all of them for taking this important step to prevent abuse of their services. If you know of any other redirection services who might benefit similarly, please point them to our "Open Letter To Operators Of Redirection Sites" at: http://www.surbl.org/redirect.html Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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Internal whitelist glitch
by Jeff Chan 17 Nov '05

17 Nov '05

Between about 11:00 and 13:00 UTC there was a glitch on my new engine's whitelist processing where an inadvertent blank line in a manual whitelist broke the whitelisting. As a result some legitimate domains were briefly blacklisted. They are now properly excluded from blacklisting. For those with long memories, this happened with the old engine once also. I've since added a sed -e '/^$/d' to prevent this from happening with the new engine also. Thank you to those who brought this to my attention. Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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be.surbl.org to be decommissioned
by Jeff Chan 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

The data in be.surbl.org, originally from Chris Santerre's BigEvil SpamAssassin ruleset, is stale and has been superceded by ws.surbl.org for a long time now, so we will be shutting down DNS service for it in one month, at the end of November. Please update your configurations to use multi.surbl.org (strongly preferred) or ws.surbl.org instead. http://www.surbl.org/lists.html This change should only be necessary for folks who manually configured their applications to use be.surbl.org. Default installations of SpamAssassin and other SURBL-using applications should be using multi and the appropriately encoded lists already. Cheers, Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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