On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:29:21 -0700 Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2014 15:07:32 +0100 > RW <rwmailli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > RW> I don't think it will work for the purpose mentioned, and if it's > RW> working properly for you, there's a lot you're not mentioning. > > RW> It's only looking for mail in the immediate post-delivery state > RW> after it's been put into the mailbox by an MTA or MDA and before > RW> it's been detected as new mail by an MUA (directly or via IMAP). > RW> It wont learn mail put into the folders by an MUA or IMAP at all. > > RW> You need to use separate destination mailboxes. > > These are _not_ general purpose Maildirs. The normal mail processing > pipe (MTA -> LDA -> IMAP -> MUA) knows nothing about them. To mark > something as spam/ham, a user (me) executes a custom macro in the MUA > which pipes the message through the safecat command to "deliver" it > explicitly to one of these directories.
You might have mentioned that because it means it's not the solution you implied when you wrote "Here is my cronjob for that purpose". It's certainly not appropriate to users that don't like the command line. > Basically, Maildir is just a > convenient container format here. It could be a database or whatever. > > Does that answer your objections? A Maildir isn't any more convenient than two simple directories. It doesn't really matter if you are the only user, but in general putting a Maildir that mustn't be opened in home directories wouldn't be a very good idea.
