On Friday, August 13, 2004, 4:52:59 PM, Rik Riel wrote:
Speaking of which, I'm curious whether the server side software SURBL has is available. I'm getting about 70k spams/day into my spamtraps here and it would be nice to turn it into a SURBL somehow...
Hi Rik, There isn't much code on the SURBL server side of things, just some scripts and small programs for processing name and IP lists. It sounds like you're looking for mail and URI parsing code, which can be non-trivial. Certainly some of the code in SpamAssassin or SpamCopURI could be of interest.
(SURBLs are built from data provided by third parties such as SpamCop, Outblaze, SARE, Bill Stearns, Raymond, Joe Wein, etc. As such we don' do any processing of actual spam messages, just the extracted URI contents.)
If the SURBL whitelist is DNS queryable, it would even be possible for third parties to run low FP SURBL lists.
We don't have really large whitelists, just a few obvious or joe jobbed ones mostly. Key is to keep legitimate sites out of the data in the first place, and that is done mainly though good procedures and practices.
Jeff C.