23 March 2002
Made new development releases of pygtk and gnome-python recently. The previous ones didn't work with the gtk 2.0 release (trivial to fix up). Since the release, I have done some clean ups to its code generator. I have refactored it so that the 4 code paths used to generate wrappers for GObject, GInterface, GBoxed and GPointer type classes are now merged into one code path. This shortened the file by 500 lines, and should make it easier to add new features. The previous layout was getting pretty hard to manage.
I have started using Spam Assassin
to tag incomming spam. As we have a mildly unusual mail
setup (postfix with Cyrus IMAP), I ended up writing my own
script to perform the spam checking. The result was a
script that could be called as a "deliver" script by postfix
for local delivery. The script would then pass the message
off to the spamd daemon for spam checking, then
pass the message on to the IMAP server via LMTP. The script
is probably useful for use with other mail servers
supporting LMTP. The script is attached to the following
bug report:
This has the benefit of only checking incomming mail, and allowing postfix to handle outgoing and transit mail at full speed as before. Next thing to try is adding spam checking support to Mailman (as the local delivery program doesn't get called for messages sent to mailman). It should be possible to set it up to reject messages above a certain threshold, and hold messages at a lower threshold.
I wish I started looking at these tools earlier. Spam volume has gone up sharply in the last 6 months, and shows no sign of flattening out.