Upcoming Release: Contribution?

[Patrick Ben Koetter]

Mark,

we've developed a feature which lets amavis query a DNSBL white/blacklist and
depending on the DNS servers reply, lets amavis add the IP in question to a
policy bank.

The feature is still in testing here. We'd like to contribute it as patch. Are
you interested?

***@rick

[Zhang Huangbin]

Post by Patrick Ben Koetter
we've developed a feature which lets amavis query a DNSBL white/blacklist and
depending on the DNS servers reply, lets amavis add the IP in question to a
policy bank.

Just curious, why not query DNSBL in Postfix (before-queue)?

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[Patrick Ben Koetter]

Post by Zhang Huangbin

Post by Patrick Ben Koetter
we've developed a feature which lets amavis query a DNSBL white/blacklist and
depending on the DNS servers reply, lets amavis add the IP in question to a
policy bank.

Just curious, why not query DNSBL in Postfix (before-queue)?

In this case the intention is not to block an IP, but to make a policy
decision e.g. "if the IP is listed, amavis should not scan it for SPAM" or "if
the IP is listed, it should use a policy bank with higher SPAM scores".

The DNS(BL) mechanism is only used as a network based lookup table. Easy to
distribute and it doesn't require a reload of all amavis instances 'reading'
an IP list.

***@rick