From: Nicolas Pouillard Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 08:30:38 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Re: notspam: a notmuch interface to spamassassin X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=314fed7ee5dc150c822b55be6eae66b24b29783a;p=notmuch-archives.git Re: notspam: a notmuch interface to spamassassin --- diff --git a/a8/2efb1599fe076d33d8a9dc56ab08162ce48902 b/a8/2efb1599fe076d33d8a9dc56ab08162ce48902 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..155d99073 --- /dev/null +++ b/a8/2efb1599fe076d33d8a9dc56ab08162ce48902 @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +Return-Path: +X-Original-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Delivered-To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C2DA431FAF + for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 00:26:57 -0800 (PST) +X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at olra.theworths.org +X-Spam-Flag: NO +X-Spam-Score: 0.001 +X-Spam-Level: +X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.001 tagged_above=-999 required=5 + tests=[RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001] + autolearn=disabled +Received: from olra.theworths.org ([127.0.0.1]) + by localhost (olra.theworths.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) + with ESMTP id njKZSu2p66Iy for ; + Wed, 6 Mar 2013 00:26:56 -0800 (PST) +Received: from mx1.riseup.net (mx1.riseup.net [198.252.153.129]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (No client certificate requested) + by olra.theworths.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AEA7F431FAE + for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2013 00:26:56 -0800 (PST) +Received: from fulvetta.riseup.net (fulvetta-pn.riseup.net [10.0.1.75]) + (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) + (Client CN "*.riseup.net", + Issuer "Gandi Standard SSL CA" (not verified)) + by mx1.riseup.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A2E2A503B1; + Wed, 6 Mar 2013 00:26:55 -0800 (PST) +Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) + (Authenticated sender: nicolaspouillard@fulvetta.riseup.net) + with ESMTPSA id DED02885 +Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" +MIME-Version: 1.0 +Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable +From: Nicolas Pouillard +User-Agent: alot/0.3.4 +To: Jameson Graef Rollins , + Notmuch Mail +References: <87sj49gha7.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +In-Reply-To: <87sj49gha7.fsf@servo.finestructure.net> +Message-ID: <20130306083038.9606.44858@mail-np.tu.ail> +Subject: Re: notspam: a notmuch interface to spamassassin +Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:30:38 +0100 +X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.6 at mx1 +X-Virus-Status: Clean +X-BeenThere: notmuch@notmuchmail.org +X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 +Precedence: list +List-Id: "Use and development of the notmuch mail system." + +List-Unsubscribe: , + +List-Archive: +List-Post: +List-Help: +List-Subscribe: , + +X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:26:57 -0000 + +Quoting Jameson Graef Rollins (2013-03-06 07:43:12) +> Hey, folks. I put together a little python program as an interface +> between notmuch and spamassassin (sa) that I thought others might be +> interested in: +> = + +> git://finestructure.net/notspam + +Good idea! + +[...] + +> PS: if anyone has any suggestions for Bayesian classifiers better than +> sa I'm all ears. I'm not so happy with sa at the moment. It misses a +> lot more spam than I would like. Maybe I just haven't tweaked it out +> yet, in which case if anyone has any suggestions on how to improve sa's +> classification I'm also all ears. + +As a competitor there is afew [1] which internally uses dbacl. + +As of other spam filters per se, I know my previous boss wrote one +called SpamOracle [2]. The tool itself seems to not see much changes +these days (2003). I do not use it myself, however I know people using +it [3] and its very likely that the software is good enough and does not +need much maintenance. + +Supporting multiple tools would be great and having a nice way to use +several at the same time would be cool... thinking of your interface +seems to trivially support this by simply running the tool multiple +times. + +Best regards, +-- NP + +[1]: https://github.com/teythoon/afew +[2]: http://spamoracle.forge.ocamlcore.org/ +[3]: http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=3Dspamoracle