zlib, mdbox and spam filtering scripts

Hi all,

I am quite happily running a dovecot setup with maildirs. This was once running courier but since the migration I have never ever looked back.

Now, with growing userbase I’m looking into using zlib compression and mdbox instead of maildir. This seems to go quite well using dsync on a testbed server. So let’s go production!

Before final decision I came across this:

• I’m using a spam learning address, where users forward their mails to train SpamAssassin.
• there is a cron script on the server, mime-stripping the attachments and feeding them into SA
• works quite well even for the still numerous POP users

So well… compression ok, I could add a gunzip into the script and go from there. But mdbox seems only accessible via dovecot. I don’t think that accessing via IMAP makes sense for a local script. So I would block myself out when using mdbox.

How are your spam/ham training routines? How do you feed SA?

thank you!

Philon