From 24ffbb8c29026d56633fbb1e208fe6c2d49f9131 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil! Gold Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 10:00:03 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Document SenderBase in case people are unfamiliar with it. --- plugins/senderbase/senderbase | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/plugins/senderbase/senderbase b/plugins/senderbase/senderbase index 99d404cb..77a55bad 100755 --- a/plugins/senderbase/senderbase +++ b/plugins/senderbase/senderbase @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ senderbase - Gives the current SenderBase reputation for a mail host. +SenderBase is a mail server reputation service run by Cisco. It's +basically a measure of how likely or unlikely they think it is for the +server in question to be sending spam, rated on a scale of -10 (near-100% +chance of spam) to 10 (near-0% chance of spam). The SenderBase score for +a server is one of several criteria that may be used when doing spam +filtering; consequently, it's useful for the operator of a mail server to +track their current reputation score. + =head1 CONFIGURATION By default, the script will use the first IP address returned by C.