[ANN] PYNOSPAM 0.1 (and some Embedded-Python-Questions)

[Gerson Kurz]

pynospam is a Python-Powered extension for Microsoft Outlook, that
will 

- filter spam mail i.e. tag the subject line with [SPAM!] if it thinks
it is spam. 

- Because the spam detection is based on an at-runtime-interpreted
python-script, you can easily add your own spam detection algorithms
using regexs and whatnot. 

- and, ..., TADA: even more usefull, convert incoming HTML mails to
plaintext and thus be saved from those bad javascript mails ;)

(Note: This is for Outlook, not OutlookExpress (OE); or rather: I
don't know if it works with OE, it works with Outlook 2000). 

More info and download incl. source:

http://p-nand-q.com/pynospam.htm

OK, onto the questions. The code consists of a C++ - written "Exchange
Extension" for Outlook, that embedds the Python interpreter and, for
new incoming mails calls the python script using PyRun_SimpleFile. I
have a few problems:

- the script is installed in PYNOSPAM project directory. I seem to be
unable to put other scripts there and import them successfully -
probably because the directory is not on the python path. Can a python
script change the import path at runtime? 

- Having run in that problem, I tried the "poor-mans-import" approach,
which is basically

exec(open(filename).read())

That didn't work, but I got no error message?! I redirected sys.stderr
before that, and other error messages seem to appear in the logfile,
but when I add that nothing gets written, and PyRun_SimpleFile returns
-1.