Ron McKeating wrote:
Please always CC the list.
> are the these one you use dnslists = list.dsbl.org:\
> sbl.spamhaus.org:\
> relays.ordb.org
>
>
> free or do I need a subscription ?
Free.
> Doh! Idleness creeping in here, I have just gone on to google and looked
> them up for myself, which is what I should be doing rather than wasting
> you time.
;)
> Can I just clarify how this bit works
>
> What really helped here, was the list from wirehub.nl
> deny message = Host or address listed in \
> http://basic.wirehub.nl/spamlist.txt
> senders = cdb;/etc/exim/spamlist.cdb:*@cdb;/etc/exim/spamlist.cdb
>
> Do you download the text file from the url then exim_createdb on it, if
> so how often do you have to download the list.
>
> Really appreciate your advice Nico, I have about 15,000 students and I
> am doing my best to protect them from spam.
I use a small perl-script which starts once per hour, and rsyncs the file.
exim_wirehub.pl:
###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CDB_File;
`rsync -z rsync://doema.wirehub.nl:6666/spamblock/spamlist.txt \
/etc/exim/spamlist.txt`;
open(DATA,"/etc/exim/spamlist.txt");
#Wirehub list
my $cdb = new
CDB_File("/etc/exim/spamlist.cdb","/tmp/spamlist.tmp".rand(1000000)) ||
die "Can't open CDB-file";
while(my $spammer = <DATA>) {
chomp $spammer;
$spammer =~ s/#.*//;
next unless $spammer;
$spammer =~ /^(.*)[\s\t]+(.*)$/ || next;
$cdb->insert(lc $1,$2);
};
$cdb->finish() || die "Failed to finish cdb-file";
###--------------------------------------------------------------------------
You shouldn't run the script at the full hour, just use some random
minute of the hour, because the wirehub rsync-server is overloaded
sometimes, because everyone downloads the new file at x:00 ;)
Nico
