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From:
Jared Johnson
Date:
June 2, 2012 11:15
Subject:
Re: New plugin: reaper
Message ID:
3dc14899ee60a4359745fdb572241b94.squirrel@efolder.net
> Yup. Part of the motivation for this plugin was to short circuit all the
> intermediate plugins and handlers so I can feed the message to sa-learn
> and dspam. Until dspam is trained, that's a very important step in
> training it. But there's no gain in validating the HELO name, SPF,  or
> DomainKeys. This plugin and associated changes adds that flexibility while
> reducing the code and complexity of the plugins.

It might not be fair to say there's *no* gain.  Our HELO validation and
SPF plugins (we don't have a DKIM plugin at the moment, for shame) now do
their lookups unconditionally and add headers to the message so that our
bayes engine can tokenize the headers themselves.

Bayes is a little bit of a black box to me, so I can't really quantify
just how useful this is, but I'd say it's greater than zero. Dspam even
treats headers in a special way to ensure that their usefulness is
maximized.

-Jared


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