[SAtalk] Brute force spam prevention for NSP's

2002-05-03 Thread Viraj Alankar
Hello, We are a network service provider and over time I have seen the customers that we provide network connectivity to many times generate alot of spam from their network. Many times the business rationale of this is basically it is more profitable to the company to keep these customers. Many

[SAtalk] base64 errors

2002-04-30 Thread Viraj Alankar
Hello, I'm using Mail::SpamAssassin in a custom filter and passing messages via check_message_text(). Many times I get the following errors: Premature padding of base64 data at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Mail/SpamAssassin/PerMsgStatus.pm line 1689 and Premature end of base64 data at

[SAtalk] CG_spam_filter.pl - Incoming/Outgoing spam throttle for CommuniGate Stalker Pro

2002-04-29 Thread Viraj Alankar
Hello, In case anyone out there is using Stalker CommuniGate Pro mail server, I've written a spam throttling content filter that's used to prevent outgoing and incoming spam by throttling connections. It basically keeps historic data in a MySQL database to keep track of how many messages a user s

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassing performance and memory usage

2002-04-25 Thread Viraj Alankar
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 11:12:17AM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > http://www.cse.fau.edu/~valankar/blah.gz > > > > Didn't debug this much, but I did disable network checks and still the same > > hang result with this message. > > Now that's interesting. I wonder if it's constructed specifically

Re: [SAtalk] SpamAssassing performance and memory usage

2002-04-24 Thread Viraj Alankar
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 04:53:50PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > On Wednesday 24 Apr 2002 4:12 pm, Viraj Alankar wrote: > > $sa_obj is re-used for every new message that is scanned. Running on > > Solaris 450mhz sparc system and perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3), I've &

[SAtalk] SpamAssassing performance and memory usage

2002-04-24 Thread Viraj Alankar
Hello, I am using the Mail::SpamAssassin v2.20 in a content filter for Stalker Communigate Pro mail server and have some questions. My filter is basically working like this: my $status; my $body; ... $status = $sa_obj->check_message_text($body); $retval = $status->is_spam(); $status->finish();