[spambayes-dev] RE: Network checks

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 07:23 PM 9/20/03 -0700, "Sean R. Lynch" <seanl at chaosring.org> wrote:
>I could, but half the reason I want SA is for the network checks, because
>the network checks are something that are specifically not available to a
>learning filter right now.

If you don't mind running mail through both Spambayes and SA, note that you 
could configure SB to pay attention to the X-Spam-Status header that 
SpamAssassin inserts.  That field contains a list of test names like 
NO_REAL_NAME and the like.  If Spambayes tokenizes them, it will 
automatically learn which ones are hammy and which are spammy.  Thus, 
you'll get the benefit of all of SpamAssassin's rules, with Spambayes' 
classifier.

As for the daemonization, you might consider using ReadyExec to write a 
daemonized Spambayes.  ReadyExec is a Python library and C helper program 
to do the equivalent of SA's spamc/spamd, but is generic for any Python 
program.

Basically, to use ReadyExec, you write a "main" function that you'd like to 
be called for each invocation of the "client" program.  It will see the 
client's sys.argv, stdin, stdout, and stderr.  You run the readyexecd.py 
script, telling it a socket to listen on and the name of your "main" 
function for it to import.  Then, to run the client, you run 'readyexec 
/path/to/socket whateverargs...'.

Voila, instant daemonization.  See http://readyexec.sourceforge.net/ for 
details.