23.05.2007 23:02 Nicolas Boullis:
I have written a plugin so that each time a message is added to a specific box, a program is run and the message is piped into it. Note that the message is also really added to the box.
I'm totally in. There is this dspam plugin by Johannes Berg mentioned on the dovecot plugin page which has the nice feature of managing spam-learning with just one folder. But I think your more generic approach by using pipes and making the command execution configurable is more nifty (and not limited to spam-learning). But for spam- learning Johannes' approach is a more intuitive way: As prerequisite mail recognized as spam by the filter is put into a spam folder by some mechanism (maildrop, sieve). Then by removing a mail from the spam folder, a mail is relearned as ham. By adding a mail to the spam folder, the mail is learned as spam. From my experience users easily understand putting spam into a spamfolder (with imap, with pop3 forwarding spam to a spam-box didn't work well) but nearly anybody actually does ham-learning if another folder is involved where mail has to be copied to. The spam learning would be fine with your plugin but is there a way to trigger ham learning when a mail is added to any other mail folder than spam?
Marc
