[Dovecot] Dovecot and Bogofilter

[Matthias-Christian Ott]

Matthias Andree wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Patrick Nagel wrote:
> 
> > Thorsten Vollmer wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 22:39 +0100, Matthias-Christian Ott wrote:
> > >> An other problem is that each mail needs to be initially classified and
> > >> due to the fact that sieve is not able to execute external programmes,
> > >> deliver has to do this task. I'm currently thinking of possibilities to
> > >> implement this, so far I came up with the following:
> > >>
> > >>   1. Write a generic pipe plugin which can execute an arbitrary number of
> > >>      programmes. The problem with this is that I'm not sure how to
> > >>      integrate this is in Dovecot's configuration file. I thought of
> > >>      something like this: pipe = prg1 | prg2
> > > 
> > > You do not need a plugin if you do the classification before the
> > > delivery: MTA | classification | LDA
> > 
> > With postfix, just add bogofilter as transport to master.cf and make it the
> > 'mailbox_transport'.
> > 
> > The problem with modifying the mail after reclassification persists, hope this
> > can be solved. Then I could also finally move from
> > postfix-procmail-bogofilter-cron-dovecot to
> > postfix-deliver-antispam-bogofilter-dovecot. :)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> it's not quite clear to me how this would work with bogofilter as a
> mailbox_transport - bogofilter isn't designed to do final delivery.
> 
> It's also not quite clear to me why people would use procmail. Although
> defended by its maintainers, it's an unusable and unconfigurable piece
> of software from ancient past -- getting error handling right in
> procmail is next to impossible, requires forfeiting :e rules and
> bloating procmailrc with explicit error handling recipes.

If you haven't puked today, just look at their source code and programming
style. I think the configuration and exit code handling is not the worst
problem in this software.
 
> If you want something and Dovecot's deliver doesn't fit your needs,
> consider maildrop, <http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/>

Looks a bit bloated to me.
 
> Bogofilter has an "integrating-with-postfix" document in the doc/
> directory that shows how to use Postfix's content_filter and does not
> need procmail. Unfortunately, it does not show how to integrate updates;
> there are several approaches to achieve that. One way is to use separate
> mailboxes where users can send mail to and where they are picked up by
> cron - best when using Dovecot is probably to make users move spam into
> particular folders via IMAP.

I read that document some days ago, but the content_filter approach
looks strange to me, because they use sendmail to reinject the E-Mail
in the queue.

Regards,
Matthias-Christian