Henrik K wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:07:16PM -0800, Steve Cloutier wrote:
Hi !
Call me -- whatever :-) I took a look at SpamAssassin a while back, and (at
least at the time), it seemed to scan the mailbox file after the message(s)
were received. The program (again, at the time) was written in Perl.
This whole process seemed somewhat inefficient, and also allowed the spammer
to believe their messages were getting through.
SpamAssassin is only a filter. There are many ways to run it at SMTP level.
Also there are plenty of software that does the features you listed. And a
proper MTA can do most of the features you mentioned even by itself. Not to
start a flame war, but it seems it's always the Sendmail people who need to
come up with fancy custom milters etc. ;)
Well, actually, we use sendmail, and, as I read the original post, I was
thinking myself, umm, a lot of these are things you can do with sendmail
without any additional code. So, maybe it's just people who see they can
do a milter but don't take the time to learn all the depth of what they
can already do.
I'm not the local expert on sendmail, but I did the original install and
I do the maintenance. My boss has dug in and done some of the tweaks.
Several years ago he attended a usenix seminar by Eric Allman and added
quite a lot to what he knew about sendmail. The latest O'Reilly book on
sendmail provides lots of depth to plumb.
If anyone wants to test this, you're welcome to do so. Contacat me with
what you're running for
a platform, and I'll see if I can generate an executable for you.
I'm sure everyone is dying to get "some executable" running in their systems.
How about sources? :)
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