[Dovecot] deploying dspam

[Timo Sirainen]

On 17.12.2004, at 00:25, Mark E. Mallett wrote:

>> Do you mean real pipes? I think mbox code could be pretty easily
>> modified to support pipes so that reading always shows empty mailbox
>> but writing works.
>
> I meant real pipes, yep.  I don't know how well you could map them to
> IMAP semantics though.  A pipe would be something you would file a
> message into, at which point the message would be fed into a program
> rather than filed into a folder.  Is it possible to have a write-only
> folder using IMAP?  Or does the folder have to present a read interface
> too?

There has to be read interface, but nothing requires that any messages 
ever exist there. CVS supports now named pipes as write-only mboxes.
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