[ILUG] spamassassin

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 20:41, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, John Allen wrote:
> > Q: What is an *IMAP* folder.
>
> A: It's a folder accessible through IMAP (surely?)
>

Funny. But this was in the context that this guy was trying to pass the folder 
directly to spamassassin with the --mbox switch, which means that it must be 
an mbox, which many IMAP folders are *NOT*

> > 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.
>
> These are the backing stores used by various IMAP daemons. That some
> are formats common to other mail programmes is incidental. Cyrus btw,
> uses mail per file (usually) iirc, it's the indices to mail contents
> which are kept in 'internal' formats.

See above.

>
> > If you want a script that does this for cyrus imap I can send you one
> > when I get home.
>
> Note that there are imap utilities (eg imapcopy) which will work with
> any IMAP folder, regardless of the backing sotre the IMAP server
> uses.
>

Yes, the script if have should work for any IMAP server, but has only been 
tested with Cyrus.

> regards,

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