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September 2008

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milter implementation of spambayes
by Amedee Van Gasse Oct. 1, 2008

Oct. 1, 2008

Hello, Today I was reading about various antispam techniques, and I came across a reference to milter. Milter is a mail filter that runs at SMTP time, that's when the sending mailserver still has an open connection to the receiving mailserver, and the receiver has not yet acknowledged reception of the email. I'm wondering if it is possble to create a milter implementation of spambayes. Currently I'm so confident about spambayes that I move all spam with a score of 1.00 to /dev/null (with procmail). With a milter-based spambayes, I could reject the spam when I still have the spamming server on the line. Don't ask me why, but I have always thought that rejecting at SMTP is better than silently discarding email, which is still better than bouncing. I found a python implementation of milter with an empty base class as an example: http://code.google.com/p/ppymilter My problem is: I have zero experience with python so I really don't know where to start. My questions to the list: * Good idea or bad idea? And why? * If it's a good idea, could it be done by a humble python n00b like myself? I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty but it's not my intention to write the book on Mastering Python either. * Who can help me by sometimes throwing a cluebat in my general direction, when I get lost? -- Amedee

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new question for FAQs - please send me the answer! Thanks.
by Cifrino, Carole A Sept. 26, 2008

Sept. 26, 2008

I mistakenly hit "delete as spam" without knowing which e-mail was currently highlighted in Outlook? How do I find that file and recover it? Carole A. Cifrino, Environmental Specialist IV Division of Solid Waste Management Maine Department of Environmental Protection 207-287-7720 carole.a.cifrino(a)maine.gov

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