Re: [Ilohamail-testers] Built-in spam prevention?

[Ryo C. <ry...@il...>]

On 6/5/2003, "Guidance" <guidance@g.yi.org> wrote:

>I'm afraid you wasted your development time on this. I bet no spammer
will use
>IlohaMail as his sender at all. A quick search in the net, there're many
bulk
>mail sender software which can send out thouthands of mail within
several
>minutes. You really needn't spend time for recipient number limit etc.
>things! This number will be limited by mail server usually. Since no one
will
>use IlohaMail for sending spam, the mail sending time interval limit is
also
>useless at all.

You're right in that there are other ways to send spam.  However, from
what I've seen, not all spam is sent by professional spammers.  There are
novice spammers who, at least in theory, might try to send spam through a
webmail interface.  I don't think there's any harm in making absolutely
sure that that does not happen.

>The actual useful feature would be spam filter, it could be integrated
in
>mail-rules feature. A common used filter is scoring algorithm by some
mail
>servers : for example, if subject contain "sex" , plus 50 , etc., then
if
>total score reach 100, do some action, including delete or move to a
>specified folder etc. --- for your reference only :)

It's on my todo list...  I haven't quite figured out the implementation
details.  The difficult part is to come up with a powerful yet efficient
filtering mechanism that doesn't completely bog down the whole system...

Ryo