T. Alexander Popiel schreef: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "Amedee Van Gasse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'm wondering if it is possble to create a milter implementation of >> spambayes. > > It's possible, but not particularly useful. Sure, you could tell a > well-behaved sender that you're rejecting the message, but spammers > are not well-behaved senders. In typical spammer setups, immediately > after the entire message body has been sent, the sender closes the > connection without waiting for a response. Spambayes needs the entire > message body for scoring, so by the time a spambayes score is available, > the spammer no longer cares, and has moved on. > > At most, you'd be informing well-intentioned senders of false-positives > that their messages were rejected... and they could at that point try > to resend through alternate means. However, in my experience, the > senders who would benefit from such are the same senders who tend to > resend anyway, when they don't get the expected reply to the message. > > Where things like milter really help is when you can reject simply > based on some combination or subset of sender IP, sender's claimed > from address, and recipient address. If you can form a decision just > based on those three things, then you can reject before the body is > sent (while the spammers are still listening). In lieu of rejection, > you can also do fun things like tarpitting the connection, giving them > a transient failure (ala greylisting), or similar manipulations. > > Unfortunately, I don't know any of the actual mechanics of milter, > so I wouldn't be a good source of implementation cluebats. > > - Alex > Hello Alex,
Thank you for your reply. Yes I know that it isn't particulary useful except for the very few false positives. But what bothers me, is that currently I have no idea at all how many spam I get. I have set up munin to show me the postfix rejections but spambayes-spam of course doesn't show up in those stats. If you know another way to inject spambayes-spam back into the postfix logs and statistics, I'd be much obliged. -- Amedee _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
