Bob Apthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 22:47:39 -0500 Joe Landman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't believe the core development team will be too receptive to this, based on what I remember from the the last time this was brought up on SAdev. I'm counting on being corrected by someone more in-the-loop but IIRC the arguments against including hooks to bogofilter, CRM114, etc. were mainly:
- it's not clear who would maintain the SA<->external code interfaces
- they'd rather not turn SA into an anti-spam Swiss Army knife (KISS)
Thats ok. I simply wanted to figure out a way to make it work with amavisd-new without hacking the same. Since amavisd-new depends upon SpamAssassin critically for its spam scan, the problem seemed how to make an external scoring agent appear to be just-another-method to SA.
I think I have a working system now, and I am not trying to push this onto anyone else. Just letting people know that they can do it on their own (and it is pretty easy), if they are getting hammered with SA-defeating spam (like I was).
I believe the arguments were more managerial than technical; the limited
resources of the core development team would be better spent fixing
bugs, improving code performance, and refactoring rather than adding
features that could be performed with procmail, et. al.
Makes perfect sense in terms of managerial resources. They have to draw a line somewhere, as long as they don't disable us from doing this ourselves, it is fine if they dont use it.
This is not to say they couldn't be convinced (IIRC nobody seemed adamantly and vitriolically opposed to it) but I'm guessing you'd have to make a very compelling case, i.e. contribute a patch & documentation & a nice bribe... :)
The "code" (local.cf) I put together is about the limit of what I have time to do :(.
Joe
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