Anyone Interested in Packaging BMS for Spam Assassin?

[Michael Peddemors <mi...@linuxmagic.com>]

In case you don't know, the BMS ("Blacklist Mastering System") is a way to 
check against many different blacklists without the overhead of DNS lookups.

We normally implement this at the tcpserver or SMTPD layer, however we have 
had requests about using it at the Spam Assassin Level, instead of 
traditional DNSRBL style lookups.  But, as using it at the Spam Assassin 
Level is not how we normally implement, and our resources are stretched thin 
at the moment, if someone wants to take this on for the good of all Spam 
Assassin Users, by all means contact us.

Basically, you trade off 500Mg of harddrive space for very effecient lookups. 
(.004 secs) Now you can lookup against as many lists as you want, and you 
don't have to worry about network outtages, DNS Caching, DOS attacks at the 
blacklist provider or any of that.

If there is interest, we can help any party who wishes to try this out.  The 
Client Programs are freely distributable.

It can work as a drop in replacement for rblsmptd, or you can use it by 
calling the 'bmslookup <IP ADDRESS>' directly.

For more information, you can check out the homepage at 
http://www.linuxmagic.com/products/bms, however you will have to excuse that 
the developers have just uploaded the new site, and are in the process of 
packaging the system for different OS's..

	-- Michael --

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