Re: [exim] Integrating URI Blacklists into Exim

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Author: Ian Eiloart
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To: David Saez Padros
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Integrating URI Blacklists into Exim


--On 17 May 2006 13:34:13 +0200 David Saez Padros <david@???> wrote:

> Hi !!
>
> If you don't mind using perl functions:
>
> http://www.teuton.org/~ejm/exim_surbl/


Won't this suffer the same performance hit as SpamAssassin? It's also perl.

> If you use ClamAV, another aproach is to feed it with signatures
> of bad url's (see http://www.malware.com.br/#blocklist as an example)
>
> Anyway i also would like to see something similar integrated in
> Exim that could handle url de-obfuscation and call a 'url_acl'
> so each found url could be tested separatelly.
>
>> One of the best ways to detect spam is to look up the links within the
>> spam against URI blacklists like Spam Assassin does. But SA is slow and
>> bulky and I'd like to just reject at connect time just like I do with
>> other host based blacklists.
>>
>> So - I'd like to suggest a feature. It would be an extension of content
>> scanning but something that would find the links in a message, look them
>> up against various URI blocklists, and cache the lookups just like other
>> lookup results are cached. I think this would be a very strong feature
>> to put into Exim for spam control.
>
>
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Ian Eiloart
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