Re: Solution to spam assassin filter problem:

Hi Kayvan,

Yes, I am but very very slowly... You know how time is *always* short,
unfortunately.

I'll add it to the main tree, but as an option. Got to change
askconfig.py to deal with this as well.

BTW, David, thanks for the patch.

Regards,
Paga

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:21:34PM -0800, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> 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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