[Pymilter] pygossip progress

[Stuart D. Gathman]

Along with fixing the problems reported, and getting 0.8.7 out (just one
more fix/feature...), I have deployed pygossip on two production mail
servers (packaging still getting debugged - get CVS if interested).  It is
cutting content filtering load by about 25%.  About 35 messages/day on
mail.bmsi.com are getting rejected due to bad reputation.  Since only 100
- 200 get content filtered (most of the 11000 spams get rejected in SMTP
envelope), this is a significant load reduction.  I have the rejection
level set to reputation < -50 and confidence > 1.  Since confidence decays 
with time, people will eventually stop getting rejected, and if the next 
message isn't spam, their reputation will improve.

I have run the peer protocol also, but this needs a lot more work on
robustness - i.e. handling socket errors when peers become unreachable
without messing up sendmail with the delay and retrying an unreachable
peer periodically.

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	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
    Business Management Systems Inc.  Phone: 703 591-0911 Fax: 703 591-6154
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