"Jason R. Mastaler" wrote:

> I don't have any problem with this feature.  I've added it to the TODO
> list.  If it's something you'd like to see sooner rather than later,
> feel free to take a hack at it.

Great, I figured it would be useful enough that there'd no be reason not
to implement it at some point.  Thanks to the suggestions from others on
this list, I don't have any pressing need for it, since I only need to
do one of these tests:  "After you're done looking through the
whitelists and blacklists, if it matches one of these, confirm it,
otherwise hold it.")

I should say that as I started to warm up on the idea of using a
whitelistin spam filter, I considered writing my own very simple filter
but then came across TMDA and saw that it easily did everything I wanted
and was extremely configurable.  So far I'm very impressed with it,
though I'm still in the shake-out phase (I'm using it as my primary
filter, but I have mail duplicated through my previous spam filter so I
can compare output and make sure I'm not doing anything dumb).  I have
fairly circumstances (several dozen valid recipient email addresses and
consequently a tremendously high spam volume -- about 3000 emails a
day), but so far it's working flawlessly.

>From looking at the commands, two other features occurred to me:

- A pipe-headers command, which instead of piping the entire contents of
a message, simply pipes the headers.  This can be helpful when you want
to do header processing with an external program, but don't care about
the (sometimes enormous) body.

- Along the same lines, lazy body processing.  If the body of a message
is never needed by any filter rule, it is simply not processed.  This is
pretty easy to do with the current Python mail classes -- which only use
the body if you tell them to -- and is an obvious optimization so it may
already be in place.

Thoughts?

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