>> This leads me to ask for another modification - can you add links >> from >> each of the test enable dropdowns (disabled/block/monitor/score) to >> the >> appropriate PB scoring value and the reverse? I think it will really >> make adjusting these values easier - especially for newcomers to ASSP.
> That is a lot of work. Agreeed, and I'm not sure it may be really needed, let me add my 2 cents We all know there are two kinds of DNSBLs; the "aggressive" ones and the "conservative" ones; now, the request makes sense if you want to use aggressive lists together with conservative ones, but assigning a lower score to the first and an higher one to the seconds; but to do that, imVHo there's no need to setup such a complex system The current ASSP options allow you to specify how many DNSBL "hits" ASSP will need to consider a message spam/ham; such an approach may seem ok, but has some slight problems let's say you mix aggressive and conservative lists, then you setup the hits count to 2 an incoming mail hits (say) "dnsbl-2.uceprotect.net" which is an "aggressive" list, so you don't want to block only for that hit; but only if another list tells you that the IP is a "bad one"; so if there isn't another hit, the mail gets through; till now, all ok, but ... an incoming mail hits (say) "zen.spamhaus.org" and since it's a conservative list you want to BLOCK the incoming mail, but since there's no hit from other lists, the message goes through and this is a problem, since there's currently no way to tell ASSP if a given list is an "aggressive" or "conservative" one and the "hits" approach doesn't help here, so we may need something else Let's say ASSP exposes TWO entries for DNSBLs; a "conservative" one (the current one) and a new "aggressive" one containing the lists which will only be used for "scoring"; upon startup ASSP will load both lists and will use both as if they were a single one ... but with a tweak; hits received from the second (aggressive) won't block, they'll just increase the "spam score" of the incoming email (but won't increase the hits count which will only be used/increased by the "conservative" list); this will allow to use both types of lists withouth too many risks and avoiding the problem shown above from a "coding" point of view; the above means that ASSP will load two files (conservative/aggressive) but will just create a single DNSBL "array" containing a "type" and a "name"; the type will tell ASSP how to handle the answers from a given list (i.e. increase-hits for the "conservative" ones or increase-spamscore for the aggressive ones) maybe it could be easier and worth implementing ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Assp-test mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-test
