[Greylist-users] How do you know when you are ready?

[Evan Harris]

Thanks for the offer Tom, but I'm already working on database enhancments to
add more tracking.  These of course will be optional for the
security/privacy minded.  One of the big ones I'm also adding is tracking of
the HELO id, since many spammers seem to use easily identifiably bogus ones.

I just need to get a few hours to finish up some details and get a beta out
that people can play with.

Evan


On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Tom Haapanen wrote:

> On 2004-02-25 20:10, Tom Haapanen wrote:
>
> > Really, the data content of the database is the big reason.  Yes, it's
> > possible to do all the reporting on your own, but if you have some
> > familiarity with MySQL, it's easy to do ad hoc queries and there is a
> > lot of added value to the database.  [...]
>
>
> On this topic, I would love a little bit more data in the database --
> namely a message-level table that would enable me to do more reporting.
> Would like to have a second table that would record
> - relay_ip
> - mail_from
> - rcpt_to
> - tempfail? (0 or 1)
> - current blocked_count (1 on first attempt)
> - current passed_count (1 on first success)
> - time from create_time (seconds)
>
> This would enable analysis of spam patterns, spam and legitimate retry
> patterns, and general mail traffic analysis -- with potential for
> further future enhancement of greylisting techniques.
>
> Yes, all this is possible by writing scripts to analyze the log files,
> but I would rather not start messing with logs that were not meant for that.
>
> Evan, I would be happy to enhance relaydelay.pl to do this if you are
> willing to incorporate the code into the main codeline.  Please let me
> know whether (1) this seems like a reasonable idea, or whether (2)
> something similar is already in the works.
>
> Tom
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