[Dovecot] Dovecot antispam (X-DSPAM-Signature)

[Nuno Lopes]

Hi Hugo,
  I'll have a look into that one. For some strange reason I hadn't seen 
things that way.

Thanks both to you and Johannes,
--
Nuno Lopes

Hugo Monteiro wrote:
>>>> I recently installed an IMAP server with dovecot and the dovecot
>>>> antispam plugin with dspam backend.
>>>>
>>>> If I configure dspam to not include the signature in the
>>>> X-DSPAM-Signature header will I be able to move mail into SPAM folder?
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Not with the dspam backend.
>>>
>>> johannes
>>>
>>>       
>> I think that the question wasn't to the point. The problem we have is in
>> the transition phase. At one point we have emails with the DPSAM header
>> and emails that haven't got it but we don't want users to notice the
>> introduction of this plugin and DSPAM. So we would like to allow users
>> to move any mail to the spam folder even if those mails haven't got the
>> DSPAM signature. In which case the email could be moved and not passed
>> to dspam.
>>
>> If you see this as a functionality that could go into your plugin we
>> would be willing to develop the patch based on any idea you have on how
>> this should be done.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> Nuno Lopes
>>
>>     
>
>
> Hello Nuno,
>
> Just use the mailtrain backend instead of the dspam exec backend. That way
> you will gain more than just the plugin "allowing" you to move non-marked
> messages. Since the messages enter the mail system again through forward,
> you can even cook up a method to retrain if the message already has a
> X-DSPAM header, or feed it as corpus if it doesn't.
>
> Another advantage of the mailtrain backend is that it will most likely
> scale a lot better than the dspam exec backend, if there are lots of
> simultaneous retrains.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hugo Monteiro.
>
>
>