Re: Feature Request

Judicael Courant <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.active-spam-killer.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Marco,

At Sun, 4 Jan 2004 21:08:50 -0500,
Marco Paganini wrote:
> 
> Hi Peter,
> 
> This is my next planned feature. The plans are to revamp the entire list
> system, while keeping it backwards compatible. I plan to introduce a new
> file, called "rules.txt" that "includes" your current lists in the current
> order in which they are tested within ASK (so, people who want to use the old
> system will not encounter any difficulties). The syntax is also going to be
> improved to allow boolean constructs and such.

While you are at it, why would not you make ask a bit more modular?

What I mean  is a better way to interact with  tools such as procmail:
For instance,  I want to pipe my  mail through ASK and  through a spam
detector such as  spamassassin or spamoracle, and then  I want to make
some decision based on the  results of both tools: send a confirmation
message, discard the message, etc...

The point is instead of having just one program doing everything, I
would prefer to have several filters/programs:
- a filter doing several tests (whitelisted/blacklisted/ignorelisted
author/correct signature/valid confirmation message/...) and reporting
them as a header
- a program queuing a message and sending a confirmation request
- a filter accepting a confirmation request and delivering the queued
mail
(maybe even a filter to add the sender of some mail to whitelist)

This  would   allow  everybody  to   specify  rules  such   as:  check
whitelist/blacklist first, deliver mail which is from a daemon but not
marked as spam in such mail folder, ignore mail I am not listed as the
recipient if the sender is not whitelisted, etc...

Yours sincerly,

Judicael.
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