exempt functionality

Hello all and happy new year,

I would like to ask if there is any thought of adding more flexibility
for the 'exempt' tag. Here is the problem we face:

We run bopms in our network for some years now and they work like a
charm. In the past we used only your RBL, while some time ago we
proceeded in running our own RBL for more flexibility. However some of
us (especially those who run servers outside Greece which are more
vulnerable to attacks) kept other RBLs too as an extra measure against
spam, DDoS etc.

The real problem is that some of the Greek ISPs' dynamic pools, often
appear blacklisted to those RBLs (especially in spamhaus). However this
is not always true, as it is a common practice for the Greek ISPs to
change the IP of their dynamic IP customers once every 24h. So it is
very easy to find a dynamic IP blacklisted by mistake.

So we want to exempt some masks from the Greek ISPs. However if we do
this (in the way bopm handles exempts) we will also exempt these masks
from OUR RBL too (something we don't want to do, as there are also
'admin decision' entries there except from normal spammers).

The way we found to overcome this problem, is by running two bopms per
server: the first has only our rbl with no exempts and the second has
all the other normal RBLs (blitzed, spamhaus, tor, blah blah) with
excepts for all the Greek ISPs' dynamic pools (so as to be cought from
our RBL if it is 'admin decision' or else to be left alone even if any
of the other RBLs report it blacklisted but it matches a dynamic IP pool
exempt).

However as this method is not so appropriate, do you have any plans to
extend exempt's functionality per blacklist in the conf so as not to
have to run two bopm instances per server?

Thank you very much for listening,

Konstantinos Tzanidis

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