Hi, everyone. There's been a lot of emails passing around
about email filtering. We began work on a filtering system about
4 months ago, and eventually it turned into a 'processing' system.
We hope to have a development version out within a few weeks for
everyone
to toy around with. You can get general information about it from
http://www.inter7.com/devel/eps. Our system, when fully implemented,
will
work in the following fashion.
EPS is handed a message and breaks it down into pieces of information
which can be used by higher level programs/functions. It's all API
driven,
so it can be used to create tools for automation, and for management.
It
has it's own internal filtering code with a powerful script parser which
can work with, or without vpopmail (but of course, is much more useful
with
vpopmail). There is a global filter, and optional user specific filter
scripts
which can be configured to filter emails in specific ways. We hope, in
the future, to create a web based tool for users to point and click
various
filtering options for their own account, such as 'Reject all email not
explicitly to my address' and 'Strip all attachments with X extensions'.
Also, since it's API driven, we had some ideas for test programs to show
how versatile it is. We hope to implement a test web CGI which
interacts
with the filter. If an email with an attachment comes in, the
attachment
is stripped, and the filter executes a command to write to a file the
type of attachment stripped, which can be viewed by the CGI. Just a
neat
toy idea for testing purposes. This code, I would assume would not be
more
than 6 lines of EPS API calls.
EPS also understands MIME and by stable version 2, we wish to have it
talking
to external virus scanners.
The bottom line on EPS is that it's very efficient. During testing, a
240k
email with attachments, was passed through it, and it parsed it out in
less than a second. Eventually we wish to incorporate EPS directly into
vpopmail
for even more efficiency.
That's it for now. Again, the current web page for EPS is
www.inter7.com/devel/eps. Any support would be greatly appreciated.
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