Hi all, I've no idea if this will be of any use to anyone. But since I've gone to the effort of writing it, I might as well make it publicly available...
Until last year, spam filtering was a source of frustration for me. Freeware packages I tried (specifically, spamassassin and dspam) were difficult to use. Custom rules using procmail were a pain. Then I noticed that python came with email parsing capabilities in the email module. So I thought that maybe custom rules in python would be easier than (a) custom rules in procmail, or (b) deciphering the documentation of a package. And a lot more fun. It turned out to be very easy. I got the filter up in a few evenings, and I've been using it successfully, and slowly enhancing it, over a number of months. In short: a success story for "using the batteries" - at least in my opinion. Source code, and a bit of documentation, is at: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/diyspamfilter.html -- Regards, Peter Ballard Adelaide, AUSTRALIA http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
