[SURBL-Discuss] SURBL independent daemon, pluggable into amavis

[Jeff Chan]

On Thursday, September 23, 2004, 7:54:45 AM, Yves Junqueira wrote:
> for those that don't use SpamAssassin and would like to make SURBL
> checks on their mail, I've adapted Devin Carraway's plugin to qpsmtp,
> making a daemon that is independent, forking itself as needed. I
> believe it performs well, even on high traffic mail.

> Its simple usage interface, that was made with amavisd antivirus code
> in mind, is possibly usable by other services. Whenever a mail comes,
> one should connect to it and order it to scan the dir or file that
> message is on.

[...]
> I am also making a transparent SMTP proxy for using with Postfix in
> servers with low traffic and/or running a local RBL daemon (rbldnsd).
> It would prevent losing e-mail. Any potential false positive would be
> notified by the SMTP reject code after the end of the DATA command
> block. Do you think it could be useful?

> You can get this plugin, that I called SURI, at
> http://i-admin.blogspot.com . I'd appreciate any comments very much.
> It's my first free software ever relased :-P

It's definitely interesting to see new implementations of SURBL
checking, and it could perhaps be useful to other applications
even if it's perhaps not a perfect fit for amavisd.

Do you mind if I link to it and also announce it?  Perhaps
it can be useful to other folks.

Cheers,

Jeff C.
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