http://spamfreeemail.com Anti-spam ideas, tools and services Wed, 06 Aug 2008 11:24:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I know I haven't posted for a long time on this site, but I have been busy with other email related activities and I wasn't sure if this site was point people to where I am currently working on these projects.I've been working on creating an open source email server ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/140/current-project/ I've been talking to people about SPF over the past few weeks. In those conversations most people who are running email servers don't think SPF is working. In many cases they believe that SPF is being used more by spammers then it is by people who are protecting themselves from ... http://spamfreeemail.com/spf/139/spf-creation-tool/ I have had my own email running through the SpamFreeEmail.com system for well over a year now and it has been working great. I've watched it learn about my email and automatically start forwarding mail that was good, while I never once got an email message sent through the system ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/138/taking-sfe-beta-down-for-a-while/ Okay, so for the past few days I've been playing with some binary data that I wasn't looking forward to. It wasn't the data so much as the last time I dealt this this particular type of data was in LISP and I was not happy with the results. In ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/134/erlangs-binary-matching-rocks/ Between last night and this morning I started to add some extensions to the IMAP client, mostly due the fact that I wanted to take advantage of my existing IMAP server and use it to sort the messages before my web-mail application gets them. So I started with the SORT ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/133/imap-client-extensions/ I've been slowly working the ErlMail during the past few weeks. Some client work and the holidays have made it more difficult to carve out programming time then I would have liked. I've been reading many different RFCs and I have been starting to build some leex/yacc grammar files to parse ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/132/erlmail-status/ I've been testing erlmail-0.0.2 and I came across some problems in my date parsing code. In reality the problems are in the util package that erlmail is dependant on, but date parsing is the problem none the less ... I decided that the randomness of RFC822 dates was worth another leex/yecc ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/131/parsing-dates/ I just finished porting the SMTP client I had built into SpamFreeEmail.com into ErlMail. I had forgotten how much easier SMTP is then IMAP, I'm talking orders of magnitude easier. In any case, I had a functional API and FSM that I was using in SFE, so I upgraded it to ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/130/erlmail-002-release/ This is the initial release of ErlMail, the only functional part of ErlMail at the moment is the IMAP client. Most of the rest of the file sin this distribution are meant as framework for future improvements. There is enough documentation in the imapc.erl file for most (Erlang) people to figure ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/129/erlmail-001-released/ I've been working feverishly to develop leex and yecc grammar files to parse IMAP command and responses and it's going wonderfully. I've anaged to get through all of the commands that I had previously parsed by hand and then got to the FETCH command ... again ... This time the parsing of ... http://spamfreeemail.com/erlang/128/back-to-fetch-again/