On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 10:25 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Hello, > > I currently have a setup on my system with what I call "magic folders" > to enable spam filter training. Here's how it works: > > 1. If you have a false-negative, put the spam into the Spam.Report > folder > 2. If you have a false-positive (which has all kinds of ugly > spamassassin protective markup in it), put the message into the > Spam.NotSpam folder > > Currently what happens is that a cron job comes along every five > minutes and processes the messages in those folders. In the case of > the NotSpam folder, it strips the message of the spamassassin markup, > retrains the bayesian net, and redelivers the message (e.g. via > deliver). In the case of the Report folder, the message is used to > train the bayesian net (among other things) and then deleted. > > I'd love to be able to trigger these actions when the mail is moved, > rather than have a cron job inspecting the mailboxes. > > I looked into the antispam plugin > (http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-antispam), which > seems nice but doesn't appear sufficiently generic for my needs. What > would really work is if I could get it set up such that putting a > message into either of those directories is turned into piping the > message to a script of my choosing (a different one for each folder). > > Does anyone know a good way of getting my own custom behavior in here, > or is my cronjob setup probably the best way? > > ~Kyle
Hello Kyle, As a temporary solution, and if your linux box as iNotify support, I suggest you use incron. incron is an "inotify cron" system. It works like the regular cron but is driven by filesystem events instead of time events. Andre Rodier r e d 2 - Service Driven Development 34-35 Eastcastle Street, London W1W 8DW www.red2.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+44) 0870 471 8492 direct (+44) 0751 124 4961 mobile
