[Mailman-Developers] documentation for config.pck elements?

[Dan Mick]

>     DM> No, I'm not trying any marriage, nor any realtime lookups,
>     DM> just using its prewired heuristics (from a .forward file, as I
>     DM> don't own my mailserver).  It's a "look at the message and try
>     DM> to intuit if it's spam" solution, so it doesn't use any
>     DM> whitelisting really (well, there's dynamic whitelisting, in
>     DM> that some of its heuristics are "have I ever noted non-spam
>     DM> from this address before?")
> 
>     DM> I love it so far; it's instantly cut my spam to almost nil
>     DM> (from ~30-40 a day) with very few errors.
> 
> I lost track, SpamAssassin or TDMA?  

SA

> I read about SA briefly and it
> looks like you could run it in a client/server arrangement.  

Yeah; it runs as a relatively-big Perl wad normally, but for
efficiency you can start it as a daemon and then run a small
C client that behaves the same way, so that the startup costs
are one-time instead of per-mail.

> If the
> on-the-wire protocol were simple enough, you could probably write a
> pure-Python client and then integrate that into Mailman's handler
> pipeline.  If it's too complex, you might be able to wrap SA's C API
> in a Python extension module.

Yeah, either should be simple enough to code in Python (it's an
HTML-like protocol).

I actually hadn't thought about trying to provide spam filtering
for lists; I'm just thrilled with what it's doing for my personal
email.