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karma: be a bit more conservative

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require at least -2 karma before smiting
also, add +1 karma to senders with karma_history > 10
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Matt Simerson 2013-03-23 02:15:24 -04:00
parent a639fc794a
commit a5b3cc33ae
1 changed files with 21 additions and 16 deletions
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@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ Karma reduces the resources wasted by naughty mailers. When used with
I<reject connect>, naughty senders are disconnected in about 0.1 seconds.
The biggest gains to be had are by having heavy plugins (spamassassin, dspam,
virus filters) set the B<karma> transaction note (see KARMA) when they encounter
virus filters) set the B<karma> connection note (see KARMA) when they encounter
naughty senders. Reasons to send servers to the penalty box could include
sending a virus, early talking, or sending messages with a very high spam
score.
@ -110,10 +110,9 @@ run before B<karma> for that to work.
=head1 KARMA
No attempt is made by this plugin to determine what karma is. It is up to
other plugins to make that determination and communicate it to this plugin by
incrementing or decrementing the transaction note B<karma>. Raise it for good
karma and lower it for bad karma. See B<USING KARMA IN OTHER PLUGINS>.
No attempt is made by this plugin to determine karma. It is up to other
plugins to reward well behaved senders with positive karma and smite poorly
behaved senders with negative karma. See B<USING KARMA IN OTHER PLUGINS>
After the connection ends, B<karma> will record the result. Mail servers whose
naughty connections exceed nice ones are sent to the penalty box. Servers in
@ -141,11 +140,11 @@ the time if we are careful to also set positive karma.
Karma maintains a history for each IP. When a senders history has decreased
below -5 and they have never sent a good message, they get a karma bonus.
The bonus tacks on an extra day of blocking for every naughty message they
sent us.
send.
Example: an unknown sender delivers a spam. They get a one day penalty_box.
After 5 days, 5 spams, 5 penalties, and 0 nice messages, they get a six day
penalty. The next offence gets a 7 day penalty, and so on.
penalty. The next offense gets a 7 day penalty, and so on.
=head1 USING KARMA
@ -164,7 +163,7 @@ ident plugins.
88798 cleaning up after 89011
Unlike RBLs, B<karma> only penalizes IPs that have sent us spam, and only when
those senders haven't sent us any ham. As such, it's much safer to use.
those senders have sent us more spam than ham.
=head1 USING KARMA IN OTHER PLUGINS
@ -196,8 +195,8 @@ seems to be a very big win.
=head1 DATABASE
Connection summaries are stored in a database. The database key is the int
form of the remote IP. The value is a : delimited list containing a penalty
Connection summaries are stored in a database. The database key is the integer
value of the remote IP. The DB value is a : delimited list containing a penalty
box start time (if the server is/was on timeout) and the count of naughty,
nice, and total connections. The database can be listed and searched with the
karma_tool script.
@ -264,7 +263,7 @@ sub hook_pre_connection {
};
if ( ! $tied->{$key} ) {
$self->log(LOGINFO, "pass, no record");
$self->log(LOGDEBUG, "pass, no record");
return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock );
};
@ -332,28 +331,33 @@ sub disconnect_handler {
my ($penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, $connects) = $self->parse_value( $tied->{$key} );
my $history = ($nice || 0) - $naughty;
my $log_mess = '';
if ( $karma < 0 ) {
if ( $karma < -1 ) { # they achieved at least 2 strikes
$history--;
my $negative_limit = 0 - $self->{_args}{negative};
if ( $history <= $negative_limit ) {
if ( $nice == 0 && $history < -5 ) {
$self->log(LOGINFO, "penalty box bonus!");
$log_mess = ", penalty box bonus!";
$penalty_start_ts = sprintf "%s", time + abs($history) * 86400;
}
else {
$penalty_start_ts = sprintf "%s", time;
};
$self->log(LOGINFO, "negative, sent to penalty box (k: $karma, h: $history)");
$log_mess = "negative, sent to penalty box" . $log_mess;
}
else {
$self->log(LOGINFO, "negative (k: $karma, h: $history)");
$log_mess = "negative";
};
}
elsif ($karma > 1) {
$nice++;
$self->log(LOGINFO, "positive (k: $karma, h: $history)");
$log_mess = "positive";
}
else {
$log_mess = "neutral";
}
$self->log(LOGINFO, $log_mess . ", (msg: $karma, his: $history)" );
$tied->{$key} = join(':', $penalty_start_ts, $naughty, $nice, ++$connects);
return $self->cleanup_and_return($tied, $lock );
@ -379,6 +383,7 @@ sub calc_karma {
my $karma = ( $nice || 0 ) - ( $naughty || 0 );
$self->connection->notes('karma_history', $karma );
$self->adjust_karma( 1 ) if $karma > 10;
return $karma;
};