Re: Solution to spam assassin filter problem:

Very nice!!!

Is someone still working on ASK? This should be a standard feature (or at
least an option).

			---Kayvan

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:14:48PM +0000, david blunkett wrote:
> 
> 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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