[Dovecot] Using MySQL to store email?

[Jan Kundrát]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> On example for spam control. Suppose a spam attack comes in delivering
> the same spam to thousands of users. And suppose that my system didn't
> realise it was a spam until after the spam was delivered. I could delete
> all email from that host for all users in seconds if I make the sender's
> host address a key field. You can't block spam retroactively without a
> database.

It's called 'SEARCH HEADER Received "$host" ON $date' and 'STORE
$messages +FLAGS.SILENT (\Deleted)' in the IMAP lingo :)

Cheers,
-jkt

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