10 Jan
2002
10 Jan
'02
3:47 a.m.
"DM" == Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM> writes:
DM> SA
>> I read about SA briefly and it looks like you could run it in a
>> client/server arrangement.
DM> Yeah; it runs as a relatively-big Perl wad normally, but for
DM> efficiency you can start it as a daemon and then run a small C
DM> client that behaves the same way, so that the startup costs
DM> are one-time instead of per-mail.
>> If the on-the-wire protocol were simple enough, you could
>> probably write a pure-Python client and then integrate that
>> into Mailman's handler pipeline. If it's too complex, you
>> might be able to wrap SA's C API in a Python extension module.
DM> Yeah, either should be simple enough to code in Python (it's
DM> an HTML-like protocol).
DM> I actually hadn't thought about trying to provide spam
DM> filtering for lists; I'm just thrilled with what it's doing
DM> for my personal email.Cool. If you do look at integrating it with Mailman let me know. If SA has a good low false positive hit rate, it might be nice to provide a handler module to it (if SA's got a GPL compatible license that is ;).
-Barry