[ILUG] spamassassin

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:23, Darragh Bailey wrote:
> Had to go to the archives to did this up since the mail server for nuig
> doesn't appear to be passing all the mail through correctly at the moment
> (12 - 24 hrs delay between when it receives and when it sends on to the
> server where I receive my mail from is not unusual)
>
> > Justin Mason writes
> >
> > - --mbox switch is required when working on mboxes.
>
> sorry that was a typo above, I forgot to add in that I was using that
> option as well, but its more to do with the fact that spamassassin current
> can't handle imap folders at the moment.
>

Q: What is an *IMAP* folder. 
A: Depends on what your using for storing your mail.
 1. UW-IMAP - An mbox
 2. Courier IMAP - Maildir format
 3. Cyrus IMAPD - internal database format.

If you want a script that does this for cyrus imap I can send you one when I 
get home.

> > You've got to put it into a file -- the mbox support uses seek(), which
> > doesn't work on pipes.   (unless you fancy trying to patch it ;)
>
> How about I just look at patching for imap folder support? would remove the
> need for me to attempt to pipe it or having to write the mail folder out to
> a temporary file in mbox format. (don't take this for a promise that I'll
> get around to this :) )
>
>
> --
> Darragh
>
> "Nothing's foolproof to a sufficently talented fool"

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John Allen,                          mailto:john.allen at dublinux.net
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