bogomilter

Rick van Rein rick at openfortress.nl
Mon Nov 6 12:40:10 CET 2017


Hi,

Has the thought ever come up to make bogofilter usable as a milter
("bogomilter")?  DuckDuckGo didn't find the word "milter" on the site/list.

Some useful properties of a bogomilter:
 - high degree of portability, AFAIK
 - less backscatter when refusing mail when it enters
 - bounces are not sent from the (internal) recipient but kept external
 - mail hasn't been split over paths, so no repeated learning

This assumes a desire to bounce spam, and not storing it in a spam folder.

It also seems to integrate well with the logic:
 - bogofilter is bloody fast
 - bogofilter usually adds one header line
 - bogofilter probably likes pre-parsed headers and data in blocks


Thanks,
 -Rick


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