Re: [Exim] Spews list filtering

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Konrad Michels wrote:

> Seems to be "lets fix these spammers" day today for me! I've sucked
> down the spews.org list of ip addresses, used awk and grep to produce a
> list of only ip addresses in a flat text file,

For what it's worth, we use spews.relays.osirusoft.com as one of
the items in a dnslists ACL specification.

> However, in the interests of efficiency, it would seem to make more
> sense to bung these IP addresses in a mysql database,

The dns cache is effectively a database, so once we've looked one up,
it should be good for a while. Lifetimes are set to ? half a day, I
think.

cheers