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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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New SC data live, new data engine also
by Jeff Chan 01 Nov '05

01 Nov '05

We have made the experimental SC2 data into the production SC list. The new version has been tested to catch about 10% more spam than the old version with no significant increase in false positives. Along with this change is the use of a new data engine which has a shorter cycle time of 5 minutes, and a cleaner, more uniform design and handling of data. This should reduce the overall latency of new additions to the lists by many minutes. Other resulting changes which may be of minor interest: 1. The list of lists hit for a given TXT record are now in alphabetical order, e.g.: Blocked, a-pill-MUNGED.com on lists [ab][jp][ob][sc][ws], See: http://www.surbl.org/lists.html where before they were in bitmask or historical order. 2. Everyone should be using multi.surbl.org now and not the individual lists, but the zone file serial numbers are now synchronized so that multi will have the same serial number as the most recently updated lists, e.g.: ab.surbl.org ob.surbl.org sc.surbl.org ws.surbl.org multi.surbl.org 1130799782 1130801582 1130799782 1130797982 1130801582 where ob was the only list updated in the most recent cycle above, so ob and multi have the same serial number. In a previous cycle, ab and sc were both updated at Unix (C) time 1130799782 and multi then would have shared that serial number, etc. Follow-ups, questions, comments, etc. to discuss@ lists.surbl.org 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 29 Oct '05

29 Oct '05

We'd like to welcome and thank the addition of a new public SURBL name server n3.surbl.org administered by: Niek Baakman from The Netherlands Without our public nameservers and the help of their administrators, SURBLs would not be possible. Our thanks to Niek and all of them! Jeff C. -- Jeff Chan mailto:jeffc@surbl.org http://www.surbl.org/

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