[Michael Hudson]
I gather virus warning emails are quite hard to filter due to each virus
program having a different format.
As my own name has been much (ab)used in `From' lines for such virus, I've
been receiving a great deal of such rejects for many days. It peeked at
around 5000 per day, but this is now decreasing.
Despite I use a few filtering devices already (spambayes is one of them!), a
lot was going through, and I had to spend the last two days for teaching my
-- unpublished -- filters how to do a better job for that overwhelming mass
of meta-email about viruses that was (incorrectly) sent back to me. The
thing now seem efficient enough, yet still, a few are slipping through.
I've nothing against sharing my code. On the other hand, I might not be
available enough to promise support: this has been written to solve personal
needs and might use configuration choices that would not please others.
Some anti-spam tools have a lot, lot more knowledge than my own filters.
Moreover, for the above processing, I did the work in a rush, not seeking
the ideal parameterisation. Also, the overall thing might be a bit tersely
documented. But if it could give ideas to the Python list maintainers (or
anyone else), I'm quite willing to make it available on request.
Ten minutes after instituting the clever hack that saved mail.python.org,
about 250 hosts were being rejected at the firewall level.
What is that clever hack? I'm mostly curious, but maybe interested too!
