MailScanner: February 2005 Archives

Julian gave a nice little snippet of perl to check the version of SA from the command line: perl -MMail::SpamAssassin -e 'print $Mail::SpamAssassin::VERSION;' Thanks Julian!

A few weeks ago I started doing some work on geo specific filtering, where email is treated very differently depending on the sending IP. Since implementing this we have been very happy with the results. I also run a UML for my personal usage and for a couple of my pet projects. It's a nice place to try things out. Needless to say the domains hosted on it do get sent a lot of spam, however the main filters usually block most of it. Unfortunately spammers really do not care about respecting DNS "rules" and instead of mail being sent to the domains' MX an increasing amount of junk is hitting the A records.