ANNOUNCE: elspy 0.1.1 released
elspy 0.1.1 ----------- elspy is a layer of glue code that enables you to write Python code to scan email messages at SMTP-time with the Exim MTA (mail transport agent). elspy also includes a small Python library with common mail-scanning tools, including an interface to SpamAssassin and a simple-but-effective virus detector. Exim is a highly flexible and customizable MTA (mail transport agent) for Unix Internet email servers. One of the new features in Exim 4.0 was the local_scan() API, which allows sites to supply custom code for scanning messages at SMTP time, accepting or rejecting them based on message content. Normally, you have to write the local_scan() function in C. Python is a high-level, extensible, embeddable, object-oriented programming language. Scanning email is a great example of something that you can do in any decent programming language, but do a lot more easily in Python than in C. The core of elspy is a C local_scan() function that embeds a Python interpreter in Exim, allowing you to write your own local_scan() function in Python instead of C. REQUIREMENTS ------------ elspy requires Exim 4.0 or greater, and Python 2.0 or greater. WEB PAGE & MAILING LIST ----------------------- You can find the latest version of elspy here: http://elspy.sourceforge.net/ To report bugs, submit patches, browse the CVS, etc., please use the SourceForge project page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/elspy For help using elspy, or to discuss future development ideas, please join the elspy-users mailing list: http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/elspy-users You can post to the list by sending mail to elspy-users@python.net. CHANGES ------- * Fix serious bug in header_add() and log_write() wrappers: they failed to escape '%' characters in the passed-in string, which could cause Exim to dump core since it treats those strings as format strings. * Change to accept messages by default if there's any Python problem, not just an import problem. Made this behaviour a bit more customizable with some #define's at the top of elspy.c -- Greg Ward <gward@python.net> http://www.gerg.ca/ Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
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Greg Ward