I vote for making a custom Thunderbird plugin that will have a standard
"blacklist/whitelist" for the exact sender or the whole domain (like
Outlook 2003's junk handling.) E.g. I could black/whitelist
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" or "perkel.com." This would then send the "execute
blacklist <data>" command and the server-side will then be custom to
whatever you need.
E.g. you say your black/whitelists are in text files, mine are in a
PostgreSQL database, but the front-end client interface would be exactly
the same regardless.
It depends if Thunderbird plugins can interact with the IMAP connection,
as most of the plugins I've seen are all client-side functions.
Andy.
Marc Perkel wrote:
Andy Shellam wrote:
I love this idea! I know it wouldn't be part of the standard IMAP
specification, and you'd probably have to have an extra capability
such as CUSTOMEXECUTE or something in the IMAP capabilities, which
Thunderbird would have to look for before it allows the use of the
plugins.
As you suggested, this would make it so much easier to create an
Exchange-style account with Thunderbird/other client software.
Anyone else?
Andy.
Thanks Andy. You literally could do anything with it. All you have to
do is create a server and a client and let IMAP establish a
connection. Seems to me it would be pretty easy to code up. The
executed program would need environment variables set so that the
server side would know the login name and IP address of the connection
in case you wanted to restrict or log that.
So - who wants to code it up? I'll write a few server end pieces to
say edit text files to be used for server side block lists with Exim.
Need someone to code it into Dovecot, and need someone to write a
Thunderbird plugin that would add a "blacklist sender" button to send
the command.
How hard can it be? Right?
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