sendmail m4 macro for ebl

2020-06-22 Thread Marc Roos 
 
I am also thinking about using it, and maybe creating my own ebl 
whitelist. Asked on the old fashioned sendmail newsgroup (cannot even 
search it), but they expect me learn this m4 language. I assume in this 
era I am not the first trying to use this, anyone like to share these 
few lines?




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To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Detection rate of msbl.org

I’m thinking about using the EBL from msbl.org with SA.

Can anyone tell me what detection rate they are getting with it? Is it 
worth using, or would the spam be trapped by other methods (RBL, etc) 
anyway?

Pretty hard to find much information about how useful it is.

Thanks,

James.

Detection rate of msbl.org

2020-06-22 Thread James Brown 
I’m thinking about using the EBL from msbl.org with SA.

Can anyone tell me what detection rate they are getting with it? Is it worth 
using, or would the spam be trapped by other methods (RBL, etc) anyway?

Pretty hard to find much information about how useful it is.

Thanks,

James.

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Re: AuthCourier.pm

2020-06-22 Thread Neil Romig 
On Sat, 2020-06-20 at 12:23 -0400, Bill Cole wrote:
> On 20 Jun 2020, at 4:14, Neil Romig wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know the status of AuthCourier.pm in Spamassassin?
> 
> It *NEVER* has been in any way an official part of the SpamAssassin 
> project. I can find no evidence of it being updated since 2003. If you 
> have kept SpamAssassin updated since then without reproducing the manual 
> adaptations needed to use AuthCourier.pm, you are almost certainly no 
> longer using in any meaningful way.
> 
> In general, the supported interface between SpamAssassin and 3rd-party 
> modules has changed so much in the past 17 years that I would not expect 
> AuthCourier.pm to function correctly. In addition, as you reported in 
> bug 7829, Perl itself has advanced in that time to the point where 
> relatively immature modules which worked then (e.g. with Perl 5.8.x) can 
> be expected to fail today with any recent version of Perl.
> 
> > I have installed spamassassin and followed advice at 
> > http://da.andaka.org/Doku/courier-spamassassin.html
> >  but on reporting a 
> > bug (#7829) to Spamassassin was informed it was an "ancient" module I
> > probably shouldn't be using.
> > I don't want to experiment any more than necessary on my mail server 
> > so perhaps someone can confirm whether I need this module for my 
> > virtual mail users.
> 
> You probably do not need it, since there is now direct support for 
> virtual users in the spamd component of SpamAssassin. I suspect that the 
> reason AuthCourier.pm was not maintained is that it became superfluous, 
> however others would need to confirm that, as I do not use that 
> functionality.
> 
> 
Thanks for the help. Being new to Spamassassin I am trying to get my head 
around all the docs and was looking for a quick Howto.

Most of my online searches result in links to the outdated guidance - even on 
Spamassassin wiki at 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SPAMASSASSIN/IntegratedInCourierUsingMaildrop.

I have adjusted my config as suggested with --virtual-config-dir rather than 
using AuthCourier.pm

Regards,

Neil.