ANNOUNCE: elspy 0.1 (Exim local_scan() in Python)

elspy 0.1
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elspy is a layer of glue code that enables you to write Python code to
scan email messages at SMTP-time with the Exim MTA (mail transport
agent).  elspy also includes a small Python library with common
mail-scanning tools, including an interface to SpamAssassin and a
simple-but-effective virus detector.

Exim is a highly flexible and customizable MTA (mail transport agent)
for Unix Internet email servers.  One of the new features in Exim 4.0
was the local_scan() API, which allows sites to supply custom code for
scanning messages at SMTP time, accepting or rejecting them based on
message content.  Normally, you have to write the local_scan() function
in C.

Python is a high-level, extensible, embeddable, object-oriented
programming language.  Scanning email is a great example of something
that you can do in any decent programming language, but do a lot more
easily in Python than in C.

The core of elspy is a C local_scan() function that embeds a Python
interpreter in Exim, allowing you to write your own local_scan()
function in Python instead of C.


REQUIREMENTS
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elspy requires Exim 4.0 or greater, and Python 2.0 or greater.


WEB PAGE & MAILING LIST
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You can find the latest version of elspy here:

  http://elspy.sourceforge.net/

To report bugs, submit patches, browse the CVS, etc., please use
the SourceForge project page:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/elspy

For help using elspy, or to discuss future development ideas, please
join the elspy-users mailing list:

  http://starship.python.net/mailman/listinfo/elspy-users

You can post to the list by sending mail to [email protected].


CHANGES
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elspy 0.1 is the first public release.

-- 
Greg Ward <[email protected]>                         http://www.gerg.ca/
If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

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