Possible project - Python mail proxy to do greylisting, etc.

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Fri Jun 27 14:10:37 EDT 2003


Evan Simpson wrote:

> I was obviously not clear enough when I said "project like this",
> though.  Python code to proxy SMTP isn't hard to come by, but I was
> talking about a Python proxy that does interesting things with the data
> provided by HELO, RCPT TO, and MAIL FROM.
>
> In particular, I'm interested in making it very easy to experiment with
> various greylisting, tarpitting, and sender validation configurations.
> I could certainly start from Spambayes' code, or just use async

there's also Sam Rushing's SpamWall:

    http://www.nightmare.com/squirl/spam/

(a bit old, so it might require some minor tweaks to run with
recent versions of asyncore)

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