"Fred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm posting this idea here to see what the dev's think about improving > the --lint feature of SA to detect when a RTBL starts tagging everyone.
Given the current state of RBL conventions (the lack of a response that means "stop using!"), there are two options to detect it: - query an unlisted address (maybe 10.0.0.2 or something like that) - notice that every look-up is returning true - a human notices it - a human is otherwise notified about it Then there's the question of what to do once you know it's tagging everyone: - make lots of noise (easy and inexpensive) - touch a file to disable the RBL (expensive if you have to test for it on every message for every blacklist in use) - change the configuration so the next time SA starts it will be disabled (may take a long time, hard to do correctly) Daniel -- Daniel Quinlan anti-spam (SpamAssassin), Linux, http://www.pathname.com/~quinlan/ and open source consulting
