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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 22/12/2021 18:55, Tom Fillmore wrote:
> Hi, there -
>
> Thanks, that's what I was afraid of....
>
> Unfortunately for me that doesn't work very well - I run bahai.email, which 
> has about 160 lists for different communities of the Baha'i Faith 
> (bahai.org).  It is getting a steady increase in the number of list-specific 
> spam from the same 'people' using slightly different addresses with the same 
> human name on a growing number of the lists.  I'm interpreting this to mean 
> that all the spams come from the same peoples or bot network.  We're talking 
> a steady increase, here.
>
> I'll see if I can create something that monitors incoming spam, captures it 
> into table(s) including headers for additional forensics, distributes new 
> blockfiles per list, allows for manual review of what it's captured then 
> submits the addresses to various blacklisting services.  If it proves 
> worthwhile I'll create a git repository for it.  I already have Postfix 
> compare all incoming addresses to several blacklist sites, we are talking 
> about those that get through but are tagged as spam by spamassassin.  I know 
> it's possible to have them rejected automatically but I don't want to drop 
> legitimate posts with weird but OK content, and/or put a legit subscribers 
> email onto a blocklist service just because they send something spamassassin 
> doesn't like.
>
> Anyway, if anyone knows of a project like this please reply with a location.  
> Don't want to reinvent the wheel- my time is limited, but I've got to do 
> something.
>
> Thanks, everyone, have a happy holiday season but please play it safe.  It's 
> better to miss a gathering than be on a ventilator.  :)

Hello Tom,

if you have the blocklist addresses in a SQL database, you can define search 
filters in Sympa which can be used in a scenari to implement your blocklist.

Regards
       Racke

> Tom Fillmore
> southern California
>
>
> The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
> - Baha'u'llah
>
> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>
> On Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021 at 1:34 AM, Stefan Hornburg (Racke) 
> <address@concealed> wrote:
>
> > On 21/12/2021 23:20, Tom Fillmore wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, there -
> > >
> > > > Am I correct in saying that each list has it's own blocklist and it is not a 
> > > > centralized SQL table?
> > > >
> > > > Sorry if I'm missing the obvious.  :)
> > > >
> > > > Tom Fillmore
> > > >
> > > > southern California
> > > >
> > > > > The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens...
> > > > >
> > > > > /- Baha'u'llah/
> >
> > Hello Tom,
> >
> > the blocklist is located in search_filters/blocklist.txt for each list (in 
> > list_data directory).
> >
> > It is not present in the database.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Racke
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
> >
> > Debian and Sympa administration.


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