[Mailman-Developers] anti-spam filter

[Pratik Sarkar]

Can someone please give me a link of the existing mailman spam filter
techniques.?
Pratik


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Richard Wackerbarth <rkw at dataplex.net>wrote:

> 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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