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Pyzor project status?

[Paul B. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi all,

I feel like I'm a little late to the party, but regardless I just
started checking out Pyzor. For various reasons I am leaning toward it
over Razor and DCC.  If it ends up seeming worthwhile I'd like to add
it to my Postfix anti-spam setup, loosely documented here:
http://e-scribe.com/antispam/

But activity seems very low, and as somebody noted in September (I
looked at the archives), this includes reporting activity, which in
turn makes it a lot less useful.

At the moment I've got a spamtrap account with procmail running "pyzor
report" on each incoming message (hence all the one-counts below):

  formail -s pyzor check < ~spamtrap/mbox

217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     81      0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     17409   0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     17409   0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     589     0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     556     0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     626     0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0
217.160.253.84:24441    (200, 'OK')     1       0

So anyway, before I launch into my specific questions I thought I'd
ping the list and make sure this is worth pursuing. Anybody out there?

Regards

pb

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Re: Pyzor project status?

[Mark N. <ma...@ti...>]

On 5 Oct 2004 at 9:42, Paul Bissex wrote:
> But activity seems very low, and as somebody noted in September (I
> looked at the archives), this includes reporting activity, which in
> turn makes it a lot less useful.

I think activity on the mailing list is low because pyzor is a fairly mature product that 
works well.  It is easy to set up, and it doesn't seem to need much development.

I use MailScanner for virus and spam control on our company mail server.  
MailScanner can use of SpamAssassin for improved spam checking.  
SpamAssassin can use Pyzor and other programs as plug-ins to improve its 
accuracy.  I use DCC as well as Pyzor with our SpamAssassin.  The logs of my mail 
server verify that Pyzor is triggered on many spam messages, so I think the reporting 
is sufficient. 
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Re: Pyzor project status?

[Paul B. <pau...@gm...>]

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 10:35:27 -0700, Mark Nienberg <ma...@ti...> wro=
te:
> On 5 Oct 2004 at 9:42, Paul Bissex wrote:
> > But activity seems very low, and as somebody noted in September (I
> > looked at the archives), this includes reporting activity, which in
> > turn makes it a lot less useful.
>=20
> I think activity on the mailing list is low because pyzor is a fairly mat=
ure product that
> works well.  It is easy to set up, and it doesn't seem to need much devel=
opment.

Cool, thanks. That makes sense. (Thanks to Tim for his offlist reply too).=
=20

If anybody out there is running Pyzor with Postfix (not as part of SA,
but standalone), I'd be interested in seeing configuration details.=20
I'll hit the Postfix list if I don't hear anything here.

thanks

pb

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paul bissex, e-scribe.com -- database-driven web development
413.585.8095
69.55.225.29
01061-0847
72=B039'71"W 42=B019'42"N