procmail replacement in Python

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Wed Jun 19 17:22:54 EDT 2002


>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard at iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

    François> [Gerhard Häring]

    >> I'm currently just using spamassassin (the best spam detector around,
    >> very configurable, but written in Perl ;-).

    François> I wanted to peek at Spamassassin, which seems to have a good
    François> reputation.  And now, you are trying to discourage me? :-)
    François> It's really a strange phenomenon: more I work with Python,
    François> more Perl gets unreadable :-)

    >> I'm also investingating Pyzor, as I found the Razor author to be too
    >> clueless (also the razor servers aren't open-source).

I strongly recommend SA.  I just trust Craig Hughes to get the Perl
right. ;-)  As for Razor, it seems fine (and I report spam that slips
through SA to Razor), but I don't use it because the network overhead is to
high.  (SA can automatically ask Razor for a verdict on a message.)

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