From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2b909902584f450a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!nuzba.szn.dk!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!not-for-mail From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: Basil -- Internet Message (email) and MIME library for Ada v 1.0 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:30:55 -0500 Organization: Jacob's private Usenet server Message-ID: References: <3d42731b-4669-414e-87cc-454260ef62ec@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> <4885d1e6$0$90266$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: jacob-sparre.dk 1216769479 21685 69.95.181.76 (22 Jul 2008 23:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:31:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6992 Date: 2008-07-22T18:30:55-05:00 List-Id: "Colin Paul Gloster" wrote in message news:Pine.WNT.4.64.0807221619570.3144@teor2... ... > Salutations to gentlemen in Chicago and Herlev, > > Please post again to news:comp.lang.ada with reports of how well the > mail server has been working. After some experience, it might be > worthwhile for various Ada organizations to replace the solutions > which they currently use with the new mailserver software. It might be > trickier for ACM SIGAda which uses the ACM's central ListServ system, > but I suspect that the the smaller scale operations could readily > adopt the option from HAFD Consulting. For what it's worth, R.R. Software and most of the AdaIC functions have been running on a primarily Ada mail server (and all Ada web server) for several years. I use an ancient public domain mail server for local mail delivery (POP3) and an ancient mailing list program to handle the mailing list, but all of the mail receiving, delivery, and spam filter functions are in Ada. The question will be asked why it was never made available to the community, and the answer is that it wasn't designed to be that -- it was intended to be a professional grade spam filter and as such the *code* wasn't documented much nor made very flexible. (In particular, there aren't any libraries that could be used in other applications, although I'm sure parts could be extracted.) There's plenty of user-level documentation, but that's it. (It's also a Claw application, and as such fairly tied to Windows for its user interface.) Randy.