More spam checking... (with XBL)

[ ] by Christian Stocker @ 12.06.2005 17:14 CET

Since a few days, spam comments are coming in again (they stopped for some weeks for me..). All are catched currently by our spamfilter, but nevertheless I added an additional check against XBL. Until now with good results (no false positive, a few false negatives, but the other tests still catched them, so no spam comments slipped through). Will further observe it and then add it also to the stable branch.

Update: I further improved it, so that it also works on hosts, where a DNS request always returns something. (Net_DNSBL expects an NXDOMAIN, if it's not in the blacklist...)

2nd Update: run http://domain.com/admin/webinc/update/ if you update now. We have a new field called "comment_rejectreason", which is needed in the blog admin. Because the reject reason is now also shown in the blog overview. I plan to remove the "send mail comment", if the comment is rejected (but not when moderated), so we need an overview, why some comments were rejected.

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alain @ 13.06.2005 07:15 CET
Urks, i should have been doing the upgrade yesterday, full mailbox again :)
chregu @ 13.06.2005 07:17 CET
Full mailbox of accepted or rejected spam?

'cause even with the new code, you'll get an email for rejected spam. I'm thinking about improving that ;)
Alain @ 13.06.2005 07:58 CET
All rejected, none went through :)
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