[Spambayes] Seeking Peer Review - Spamish Inquisition

[David McNab]

Hi,

I am now inviting code reviews for Spamish Inquisition, with a view to
evolving it into a release-quality package.

<quick_recap>
Spamish Inquisition (formerly named mtaproxy) is an SMTP server that is
intended to replace the SMTP server on small networks.

Sourceforge registration pending - interim website is:
http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/spamishinquisition

Spamish Inquisition performs verious spam checks in real time, during
the incoming SMTP session, and if the message is determined to be spam
(via SpamBayes classification, or remote host appearing on RBLs, or
remote host attempting to use Spamish Inquisition as a relay), it takes
countermeasures.

When emails are ruled legitimate, Spamish Inquisition invokes your
preferred MTA (Exim, qmail, sendmail etc) 'inetd-style', and passes on
the message for delivery.

The anti-spam countermeasures consist of sending back incomplete SMTP
response lines, to tie up the incoming SMTP connection for any desired
length of time. Also, archiving the offending spams, and invoking a
user-definable function.
</quick_recap>

Thanks to advice and code snippets from you folks on this list, SpamInq
is now fully integrated into SpamBayes as an add-on module, able to
instigate the filtering, uploading and web interface launching via
python linkage, without needing the external shell to launch the scripts
separately.

If your curiosity grabs you, and if you're willing to give some
constructive feedback to help SpamInq attain release quality, please
click on the link (scroll up), download it and put it through its paces.

Status - I've had it working live on my server box for several days, and
find it now to be looking pretty robust.

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Cheers
David