Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:39:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:39:27 -0400 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([208.129.208.51]:15772 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 19:39:26 -0400 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 16:48:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@blue1.dev.mcafeelabs.com To: Matti Aarnio cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Stupid anti-spam testings... In-Reply-To: <20020902233230.GC5834@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1141 Lines: 30 On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:28:37PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > ... > > > Folks, when you deploy that kind of testers, DO VERIFY THAT THEY > > > HAVE SANE CACHES! A positive result shall be cached for at least > > > two hours, a negative result shall be cached for at least 30 minutes. > > > > Do you know if this is one of the default checks from spamassassin? > > No idea. I have seen these coming from Exim 4.10, Exim-something, > some sendmail milter (whatever that is), etc.. > > Apparently the idea (which I have thought of long ago, and rejected > as incomplete) has caught, and has multiple implementations... Personally i don't think this kind of tests are going to reduce the spam that much but a simple lookup in the subscribers database might help reducing the smtp-test traffic only for non-subscriber addresses. - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/