Justin Mason wrote: > OK, we really need to figure out some way to kill these FAQs off. Every > week, someone asks a question about why SpamAssassin is killing their > server, and most of the time the answer is "stop using blacklist.cf and > blacklist-uri.cf". If 1 person is asking the question, chances are > there's another 10 people who aren't asking, and who are just ditching > SpamAssassin entirely. :( > > > RDJ folks -- can you zero out, or remove, those two files from the list > entirely? It doesn't seem to matter if we say "don't use them" on > our websites, people will set up RDJ to download everything anyway > it seems. > That will help a little. However, a lot of folks using RDJ are using really old versions. Remember how many folks started posting to the list after I modified antidrug.cf to generate errors? This happened long after I got them to modify RDJ to not include it.
There also seem to be a some sites out there that have copies of RDJ which aren't recent. For example, Fortress Systems (fsl.com, commercial MailScanner) still has an old copy on their "resources" site that still supports antidrug,cf and if enabled will to download antidrug.cf from comcast. (The updated version lives on sandgnat.com) They're default config doesn't have it in the trusted rulesets, but they really shouldn't have support for it in their script at all anymore. (In other news, I finally canceled the comcast account on Tuesday. So that one is now completely out of my control. Fortress Systems, are you listening? I'll try posting on the MailScanner list later..) > I think I'll add a new question right on the top of the FAQ list > about this... > > What else can we do? > Add code to generate a lint warning any time a .cf file over 1mb is read unless a config option is set to silence it? Possibly even have this as as: warn_conffile_maxsize (speced in KB, default 1024) Users that want to use absurdly large files can just raise the number.. We could do the same with a warning based on rule count, and/or white/blacklist entries. Of course, we might need to do a little research as to what's reasonable, but certainly the numbers in the blacklist files are a good example of what's not reasonable..
