Solution to spam assassin filter problem:

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First I wrote a spam assassin tagged detection routine in askmessage.py:

        
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
        def is_spam(self):
                """
                Returns true if this message comes is spam False otherwise
                """
                subject = self.get_subject()
                self.log.write(10, "is_spam(): Subject=" + subject)
                if re.match("\{spam[!?]*\}", subject, re.IGNORECASE):
                        return 1
                else:
                        return 0

Then I applied this test in askmain right above is_confirmation_return:
                if self.msg.is_spam():
                        self.log.write(1, "Spam caught, delivering...")
                        self.msg.deliver_mail("Spam email ")
                        return(self.config.RET_PROCMAIL_CONTINUE)

Now tagged mail passes straight through where my mail client handles it and
ASK only processes what SA doesn't tag. This means >95% of spams don't 
require
a challenge and the "spam multiplying" factor for ASK is <5% rather than 
100%.

ASK now only issues CR if it isn't obviously spam and isn't in my white 
list.

Comments? - this code could be much better!

Cheers,

SA








>From: "david blunkett" <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: [A-S-K-users] Spam assassin  / ASK advice
>Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:33:43 +0000
>
>
>
>Dear list,
>
>I use Spam Assassin to filter my email - this gets 95+% of all spam.  Since
>I get a lot of spam the remaining <5% is very annoying and I want to use 
>ASK
>on this 5% only.  The 95% caught I want to delete or deliver. My SA
>configuration sets a {Spam} tag in the subject line and an X-Spam-Level: **
>header.
>
>Is this easily possible in ASK?
>
>I am assuming I should hack the python scripts to add my own filters - 
>where
>would be a good point?
>
>For the 95% that SA catches there is no point issuing a challenge.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>SA
>
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