Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Donald Burr of Borg <dburr@borg-cube.com>
To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Cc: dburr@borg-cube.com
Subject: patch to add Habeas {White,Black}list check to SpamAssassin
Message-ID: <200405280637.i4S6boSN000728@borg-cube.com>
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>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Originator: Donald Burr of Borg
>Organization: The Borg Cube
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: patch to add Habeas {White,Black}list check to SpamAssassin
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Category: ports
>Class: update
>Release: FreeBSD 4.10-BETA i386
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD gatekeeper.borg-cube.com 4.10-BETA FreeBSD 4.10-BETA #0: Thu Apr 22 19:12:12 PDT 2004 dburr@gatekeeper.borg-cube.com:/usr/srctrees/RELENG_4/src/sys/compile/GATEKEEPER i386
>Description:
The Habeas Mark (http://www.habeas.com/) is a set of headers that is
specially tailored to ensure that a piece of e-mail is legitimate, and
not "spam." Users must pass Habeas' rigorous quality control standards
before they are permitted to use the Habeas Mark in their e-mail.
Lately Habeas has come under attack from many different spammers, who
are using Habeas marks in their spam without permission. Habeas is
continuing to seek (and win) legal judgment against them. However,
the problem of spam bearing Habeas marks persists.
To help alleviate this problem, Habeas has created the Habeas
{White,Black}lists, a list of valid and invalid e-mail servers
and IP addrseses, similar in nature to, for example, the RBL.
This patch will add a +8 score to any mails bearing the Habeas mark
whose servers are listed in the Blacklist, and will add a -8 score
to any mails bearing the Habeas mark whose servers are listed in
the Whitelist.
Habeas is working with the SpamAssassin development team, and these
features will be added in the forthcoming SpamAssassin 3.0. This
is an interim update that is designed to help stop the tremendous
amount of spam that is mistakenly being labeled as non-spam due to
their illegitimate use of Habeas headers.
For more information on the problem, visit:
http://www.habeas.com/pr16.html
And for more information on this fix, see:
http://www.habeas.com/configurationPages/spamassassin.htm
>How-To-Repeat:
just wait long (or short) enough, you're bound to see one or ten
come into your inbox.
>Fix:
--- Makefile Sat Apr 3 15:22:49 2004
+++ Makefile.habeas Thu May 27 23:37:21 2004
@@ -7,12 +7,17 @@
PORTNAME= Mail-SpamAssassin
PORTVERSION= 2.63
-PORTREVISION= 1
+PORTREVISION= 2
CATEGORIES= mail perl5
MASTER_SITES= http://spamassassin.org/released/ \
+ http://www.habeas.com/files/ \
${MASTER_SITE_PERL_CPAN}
MASTER_SITE_SUBDIR= Mail
PKGNAMEPREFIX= p5-
+
+PATCH_SITES= http://www.habeas.com/files/
+PATCHFILES= SA-2.63-Habeas.diff
+PATCH_DIST_STRIP= -p0
MAINTAINER= perl@FreeBSD.org
COMMENT= A highly efficient mail filter for identifying spam
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