Re: Spam spam spam spam spam

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Henrik Enberg <henrik@enberg.org> writes:

> Well, I cufted up this function for reporting to razor via spamassassin
> a few days ago, which I bound to $.

Cool.

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> 	  (call-process-region (point-min) (point-max) "spamassassin"

I've been looking a bit at various bits and pieces to find out how
much can be done internally in Gnus, and how much can't be.

From reading the Razor docs, it seems that what the Razor server wants
is basically a sha1 digest.  And that's already been implemented in
elisp by Shuhei KOBAYASHI.  So spamassassin/Razor doesn't have to be
installed for Gnus to use it to report to Razor, I think.

What I haven't found in Emacs is a way to query DNS servers.  Many of
these spam filtering thingies use DNS as the medium for transferring
data.  The only thing I found is something in the URL libraries that
just calls nslookup externally.

Is there no DNS functionality in Emacs?  Anybody want to implement it?
:-)

(It's UDP, and `M-x apropos RET udp RET' gives me nothing.)

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