Fighting Spam with Python

[Larry Bates]

Before you do too much work you should probably check out:

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/

There has already been a lot of work done on this project.

FYI, Larry

David MacQuigg wrote:
> Are you as mad about spam as I am?  Are you frustrated with the
> pessimism and lack of progress these last two years?  Do you have
> faith that an open-source project can do better than the big companies
> competing for a lock-in solution?  If so, you might be interested in
> the Open-Mail project.
> 
> I'm writing some scripts to check incoming mail against a registry of
> reputable senders, using the new authentication methods.  Python is
> ideal for this because it will give mail-system admins the ability to
> experiment with the different methods, and provide some real-world
> feedback sorely needed by the advocates of each method.  So far, we
> have SPF and CSV.  See http://purl.net/macquigg/email/python for the
> latest project status.
> 
> I welcome anyone who is interested in helping, expecially if you have
> some experience with mail transfer programs, like Sendmail or Postfix,
> or spam filtering programs, like SpamAssassin.  My Python may not be
> the best, so I welcome suggestions there also.  We need to make these
> scripts a model of clarity.
> 
> --
> Dave
>