Am I missing something or is the use of Sys::Syslog not necessary?

I can't find a compatible Win32 build..  Though I didn't look all that
hard for it, as the module seems to work correctly without it (from my
limited testing).

Thanks,
Steven

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Rudd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:26 PM
> To: SpamAssassin Users
> Subject: RelayChecker 0.3
> 
> 
> New version of RelayChecker.
> 
> http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/RelayChecker.tar
> 
> Changes:
> 
> -  It's now in a single tar file.  Put the tar file into your 
> plugin directory, expand it, and all should be good.  The tar 
> file includes:
>      COPYING            -  the GPL
>      RelayChecker.txt   -  explanations of each rule and option
>      RelayChecker.pm    -  the plugin, now with copyright info
>      RelayChecker.cf    -  example cf file (you should check the file)
> 
> -  The individual tests are now individual rules.  Each has a 
> score of .01
> 
> -  The badrdns and baddns test are combined into one rule, 
> RELAY_CHECKER_BADDNS
> 
> -  The RELAY_CHECKER rule is now a meta rule, with a score of 
> 6.  It is now set statically in the cf file instead of 
> dynamically in the pm file.
> 
> -  The config options have changed a bit.  You no longer set a "skip" 
> preference for individual tests.  Since the tests are now 
> rules, you just set that rule to 0.
> 
> -  There is now an option, relaychecker_reduced_dns, which 
> eliminates all extra DNS checks.  Instead of the PTR check, 
> it uses the "rdns=" 
> part of the Untrusted Relays pseudo-header, and the 
> RELAY_CHECKER_BADDNS test always returns 0.
> 
> -  The dynhostname and clienthostname tests have been 
> combined and replaced by the RELAY_CHECKER_KEYWORDS rule.  
> This uses a cf file option, relaychecker_keywords, which 
> feeds this test with keywords to search for in the hostname.  
> If you don't like certain keywords, just don't use them.  Or 
> you can add more keywords just by changing the cf file.
> 
> -  The iphostname check (now RELAY_CHECKER_IPHOSTNAME) now 
> allows more than 1 character of separation between the octets 
> (since some hosts have multiple characters), automatically 
> pads a 0 for hex values less than 10 (to avoid tripping on 
> words with ff or ee in them), and looks for decimal values 
> that combine 2 or 3 of the octets.
> 
> -  I think the relaychecker_skip_ip, relaychecker_pass_ip, 
> and relaychecker_pass_auth options had been in the previous 
> release so I'm not going to explain them here.  If I'm wrong, 
> then the explanation is in the .txt file.
> 
> 
> I still haven't set it up to use Net::DNS.  Not sure if I'm 
> going to at this point, or not.  Let me know if you have 
> opinions, one way or the other, about it.
> 
> I'm still interested in hearing about bug reports, feed back, 
> etc.  I think the main thing I have left for a 1.0 release is 
> "getting it into the wiki", assuming there aren't any major 
> complaints, requests, nor bug reports.
> 
> Though, I had contemplated renaming it to "BotNetHunter", 
> since that's what it's real goal is.  But, not yet.  If you 
> have an opinion there, let me know.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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