surblhost
surblhost is a command line program that check if hostnames are blacklisted in the surbl.org lists. A blacklisted hostname means that the site is referenced in spam email. Although surbl is mostly used by spam filters such as spamassassin to identify spam email, you can use surblhost for many other purposes.
| Tags | Communications Email Filters Security |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
| Operating Systems | OS Independent |
| Implementation | C |
Recent releases
- 09 Apr 2007 11:23
Changes: An option -f (force) was addes as an alias for --skip-whitelist. Lookups in the whitelist and two-level TLDs are faster.
- 09 Oct 2006 13:06
Changes: The configuration script was made to work for DNS TXT queries on FreeBSD systems.
- 06 Oct 2006 10:19
Changes: This release is compatible with older C compilers like GCC 2.95.4. Some minor code improvements have been made.
- 18 Sep 2006 05:08
Changes: This is a stable release. An option to --check-whitelist was added.
- 23 Aug 2006 05:36
Changes: The program can now add user-defined whitelists and two-level TLDs to the hardcoded ones.
