[Mailman-Developers] anti-spam filter

[Richard Wackerbarth]

FWIW,

I tend to support Stephen's view with respect to usefulness and interface strategy.

Wacky

On Apr 15, 2013, at 5:22 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

> Patrick Ben Koetter writes:
> 
>> Perhaps the integration could create an interface itself that makes
>> it easy to add other filters in the future. I am thinking Postfix
>> 'content filter', which uses SMTP/LMTP to send messages to an
>> external filter and they send it back then using SMTP.
>> 
>> The first Mailman content filter could be the one you
>> proposed. Others could add their filter later.
> 
> I don't see any Mailman-specific issues in content-based spam
> filtering, though, and very little Mailman-specific coding.  I also
> worry about reinventing the wheel, with corners.  Ie, why do we think
> a GSoC student is going to be able to do something that's worth
> putting up again the very effective filters with huge user bases like
> SpamAssassin and SpamBayes that are already out there?  Wouldn't a
> half-baked summer project just sit there and bitrot?
> 
> OTOH, a generic interface to the Mailman REST API, which could be used
> by Sendmail milters or whatever else is out there and somewhat
> standard (is it Postfix or Exim that can handle milters? I forget),
> with example implementation of a milter that checks whether the poster
> is subscribed by asking Mailman, would be useful as an extension to
> any MTA used with Mailman.
> 
> Or Terri's through-the-web interface to the Mailman Handler
> pipeline(s), with an example Handler installable from PyPI which wraps
> SpamAssassin or SpamBayes.
> 
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