getting bogofilter feedback to the mail server.

[John G Walker]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 05:51:23 -0400 Tom Allison <tallison at tacocat.net>
wrote:

> I currently use:
> postfix for my mail server,
> postgresql for managing various filter rules in postfix,
> (postfix uses many - postgresql is only one)
> postgrey,
> bogofilter.
> 
> The thought is to take the filtering results from bogofilter, pull
> the 'Return-Path' header information from the spam and use that to
> insert blacklist/whitelist entries into the postfix server
> configuration.
> 
> The idea is, with enough information on who is sending the spam, I
> should be able to block it entirely from the machine.  I'm still not
> sure if it's best to use the Received-by or Return-Path.
> 
> I guess the first question is, "has any one done something like this?"
> If so, are they still using it or was it abandoned for some reason?
> genius or insanity?


You are making the assumption here that the Return-Path is not spoofed,
which seems to me a highly dubious assumption. Why would a spammer be
so honest?

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 All the best,
 John