Re: [exim] karmasphere.com

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Author: Ted Cooper
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To: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] karmasphere.com
Peter Bowyer wrote:
> One of its interfaces mimics a DNSBL, and you can use karmasphere
> feedsets via Exim's (and many other) DNSBL functionality. But as is
> explained on the website, the DNSBL interface can only return yes/no
> indications, not scores. If you use the alternative karmad perl
> interface, you get scores between -1000 and +1000 for each query. You
> can connect to karmad via Exim's readsocket functionality.


That sounds quite interesting. I'm already passing a truckload of
information to and from my own little daemon this way and one more
information source is always good.

> Also note that karmasphere's real trick is to combine any or all of
> its reputation sources into one custom feedset that meets your
> requirements.


Just using the web interface they provide I've been getting some really
poor results but I imagine that's probably not the best way to query it.

> I'm running in 'log and monitor' mode at the moment with karmasphere,
> and when I get some time I'll analyse what's going on. But it's
> looking interesting.


If you're using it and signed up through that huge amount of
information, did you find out what they charge or if it's free or whatever?

Ted
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