bogomilter

Jonathan Kamens jik at kamens.us
Mon Nov 6 17:13:28 CET 2017


I wrote a bogofilter milter seven and a half years ago and released it
to the public. I have used it every day since I wrote it:

https://stuff.mit.edu/~jik/software/bogofilter-milter/

On 11/6/17 6:40 AM, Rick van Rein wrote:
> 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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