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May 6, 2008

new pats posted - 20080506 (maintenance pats release)

29361 patterns, 11025 right anchor strings, 99119 test IPs.

A few contribs. Mostly QA on right anchors. I've been looking at my list
of outscatter sources (i.e., "known sources of mail", even if it is
outscatter) and removing static right anchors that they match, even if
generic, because I eventually want to get rightanchors back to being a
list of all dynamics; having statics and mixed and so forth in there
just seems like more trouble than it's worth, frankly, especially when
the vast majority of same already have a pattern that matches the same
set of hosts.

Was asked to start tracking couplets (pattern class and tech, taken
together as a sort of meta-identifier); there are no new couplets in
this release.

Note that from 20080304 on, we will be including patterns for the
'outmx' tech type again, these should be understood as known legitimate
mail server naming conventions for their domain and you may wish to
exclude them from your use of the distro.

I've made sure to exclude outmx and webhost regexes from the exim and
postfix flat file distributions, so we should be safe there.

Those using the DNSBL interface will note that a return value of
127.0.2.11 now denotes an 'outmx'. This should not affect users of
the sendmail package, as I've not integrated support for scoring on
that basis into the package. Users of other DNSBL-aware tools should
modify their software, as we'll be adding a lot more of these in the
coming weeks.

Download them here:

sendmail:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/sendmail_access_db
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/rightanchors

postfix:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/postfix_regexp_table-20080506

exim:
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts
http://enemieslist.com/downloads/exim_hosts-20080506

Posted by schampeo at May 6, 2008 7:29 PM

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