[Mailman-Developers] Discussion about Mailman plugins(GSOC 2015)

[Prakash kumar]

Sir
I am very sorry but I could not fully understand our last discussion. Are
you trying to say that I should work on sanitizing the message and building
a spam filter?

Thank You
Prakash Kumar

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 2:40 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
wrote:

> Prakash kumar writes:
>
>  >    1. Using regex for filtering texts ( personal information eg: phone
>  >    number, address ).
>
> What do you mean by "filter"?  Stop or hold delivery, or "sanitize"
> the message?  If the former, I would drop the motivation about
> "personal" information, because body filtering is also desired for
> spam-filtering and avoiding flame-war reasons.
>
>  >    2. Checking type of files that can be attached to the mails. For eg:
>  >    .exe not allowed.
>
> This is right out as it's already implemented.
>
>  >    3. If there are multiple attachments in the email
>  >
>  > If (multiple attachments) then
>  > > for each attachment
>  > >  if(not appropriate) then
>  > >  discard
>  > > notify sender that this part is removed from email body and why
>  > > else
>  > > continue
>
> Also already done (except for the notification part.
>
>  >  Is it big enough for a gsoc proposal?
>
> I don't think writing multiple unrelated plugins is a good proposal.
> AFAIK GSoC is intended to be a single project with enough scope to
> require a certain amoung of design and planning.
>
>