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Re: auto-blacklist ?

2006-08-01 by strandkjell

--- In milter-greylist@yahoogroups.com, manu@... wrote:
>
> Fabien Tassin <fta+miltergreylist@...> wrote:
> 
> > If you split the features, let say, grey 1st, then black, you
loose the
> > advantage of grey. Same thing, if you black 1st, grey has no more
ways to
> > take advantage of the honeypots. It has to be at the same level to
kill
> > the whole flow.
> 
> We can immagine that the honeypot is managed by another program that
> tells milter-greylist to drop entries from the database. That way you
> keep the flexibility of doing anything you want with the honeypot tool,
> such as archiving spam messages, communicating with other antispam
> tools, and so on.
> 
> How to tell milter-greylist? We can just have a small feature addition:
> 
> acl blacklist could have a flush statement, which could tell
> milter-greylist to drop anything about the IP in its databases.
> Something like this:
> 
> acl blacklist dnsrbl "local-blacklist" flush
> 
> Your honeypotware would just have to feed a local DNSRBL to have
> milter-greylist forgetting about the IP's tupples and blacklisting it.
> 

I think this sounds great.
I would feed this from another milter we have that is running
Spamassassin and antivirus from F-Secure.

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