BOTNET plugin download

[RW <rw...@googlemail.com>]

The BOTNET plugin isn't covered in the CustomPlugins wiki page. When I
Googled it I found this:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet.tar

but it's a bit old. Is there a later version?

Re: BOTNET plugin download

[John Rudd <jr...@ucsc.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 16:31, alexus<al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> whats botnet plugin?

It's a SpamAssassin plugin looks at DNS configurations and attempts to
identify hosts that are probably actually clients that are sending
email directly to your server, instead of through their own mail
server.

There's a high likelihood that those senders are actually botnets and
not legitimate senders.  Thus the name of the plugin.  But, botnets
aren't its only purpose.  It's also an encouragement for email admins
to follow best practices in how they set up the DNS of their mail
servers.


>
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM, John Rudd<jr...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 09:55, Jari Fredriksson<ja...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>>> The BOTNET plugin isn't covered in the CustomPlugins wiki
>>>> page. When I Googled it I found this:
>>>>
>>>> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet.tar
>>>>
>>>> but it's a bit old. Is there a later version?
>>>
>>> That's 0.8 which is AFAIK the latest.
>>>
>>
>> Yes, 0.8 is the latest, and it's ... 2 years old now? or just 1.5?
>> somewhere around there.
>>
>> I haven't really needed to do an update, though there are some things
>> I want to re-work once I get some spare time (mostly, how it does DNS
>> lookups, to use SA internals more).
>>
>
>
>
> --
> http://alexus.org/
>

Re: BOTNET plugin download

[alexus <al...@gmail.com>]

whats botnet plugin?

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:23 PM, John Rudd<jr...@ucsc.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 09:55, Jari Fredriksson<ja...@iki.fi> wrote:
>>> The BOTNET plugin isn't covered in the CustomPlugins wiki
>>> page. When I Googled it I found this:
>>>
>>> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet.tar
>>>
>>> but it's a bit old. Is there a later version?
>>
>> That's 0.8 which is AFAIK the latest.
>>
>
> Yes, 0.8 is the latest, and it's ... 2 years old now? or just 1.5?
> somewhere around there.
>
> I haven't really needed to do an update, though there are some things
> I want to re-work once I get some spare time (mostly, how it does DNS
> lookups, to use SA internals more).
>



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http://alexus.org/

Re: BOTNET plugin download

[John Rudd <jr...@ucsc.edu>]

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 09:55, Jari Fredriksson<ja...@iki.fi> wrote:
>> The BOTNET plugin isn't covered in the CustomPlugins wiki
>> page. When I Googled it I found this:
>>
>> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet.tar
>>
>> but it's a bit old. Is there a later version?
>
> That's 0.8 which is AFAIK the latest.
>

Yes, 0.8 is the latest, and it's ... 2 years old now? or just 1.5?
somewhere around there.

I haven't really needed to do an update, though there are some things
I want to re-work once I get some spare time (mostly, how it does DNS
lookups, to use SA internals more).

Re: BOTNET plugin download

[Jari Fredriksson <ja...@iki.fi>]

> The BOTNET plugin isn't covered in the CustomPlugins wiki
> page. When I Googled it I found this:
> 
> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet.tar
> 
> but it's a bit old. Is there a later version?

That's 0.8 which is AFAIK the latest.