[Spambayes] Integrating into Mercury

[Bullock, Stuart]

Dear Anthony,

Mercury is the Mercury Mail Transport System, which is part of the
Mercury/Pegasus mail system developed and maintained by David Harris of New
Zealand (see the link www.pmail.com ) and is freeware (you can optionally
buy the manuals as a form of payment).  It is the SMTP service that I use at
home, and I have been spent weeks trying to get the content control to
simply filter the queued spam mail into a folder SPAMDIR... I was intending
to write my own Bayesian module, being both a programmer and mathematician
myself, and use the primitive "plug-in" method in Mercury to be able to do
this.  But why re-invent the wheel if you fellows have done it (and probably
have done it better)?

Back note: there is a Bayesian filter for the Pegasus mail reader, but I was
hoping to stop the spam at the SMTP/POP3 mercury level before it hit Outlook
since I don't use Pegasus.

The reasons it would be desirable to move the spam to a separate folder via
Mercury, and then view it in the safety of notepad is because most spam has
HTML.  HTML in Outlook is processed connecting to sites via the internet and
therefore the SPAM site can verify your IP address (or deliver cookies, if
that feature is turned on, etc. etc.) - very undesirable.  This means I have
to shutdown Outlook's connection to the internet before looking at HTML mail
(either turn off the router or temporarily disallow Outlook external access
via the firewall).  PS: The solution of permanently turning off Outlook's
HTML processing is no longer viable as I also get legitimate email that has
HTML.

Hence my question.  Apologies for the long answer here: I had assumed that
you and your team would be familiar with Mercury as a mail transport system.

Regards

Stuart Bullock


-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Baxter [mailto:anthony at interlink.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:01 AM
To: Bullock, Stuart
Cc: 'spambayes at python.org'; 'SPB'
Subject: Re: [Spambayes] Integrating into Mercury



>>> "Bullock, Stuart" wrote
> Mercury SMTP/POP3 engine has a content-control that is less than 
> optimal. Have you thought about integrating into Mercury (or, even 
> better, have you been able to do it)?  If you have been able to do it 
> - then could you please give me a quick "how-to"?

What's Mercury?

Anthony

-- 
Anthony Baxter     <anthony at interlink.com.au>   
It's never too late to have a happy childhood.


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