Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the pessimism and lack of progress these last two years? Do you have faith that an open-source project can do better than the big companies competing for a lock-in solution? If so, you might be interested in the Open-Mail project.
I'm writing some scripts to check incoming mail against a registry of reputable senders, using the new authentication methods. Python is ideal for this because it will give mail-system admins the ability to experiment with the different methods, and provide some real-world feedback sorely needed by the advocates of each method. So far, we have SPF and CSV. See http://purl.net/macquigg/email/python for the latest project status. I welcome anyone who is interested in helping, expecially if you have some experience with mail transfer programs, like Sendmail or Postfix, or spam filtering programs, like SpamAssassin. My Python may not be the best, so I welcome suggestions there also. We need to make these scripts a model of clarity. -- Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list