20 Aug
2003
20 Aug
'03
6:14 a.m.
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 01:55, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Architecturally, I consider putting the filter in the LDA appropriate because the filter operations happen at delivery time when it's appropriate not as you are trying to read your inbox. It's also the appropriate place to put other types of processing such as antispam and antivirus checking.
It's also where I was going to put the Sieve scripting. I was going to create a separate "deliver" binary which would read the mail from stdin and place it into proper mailbox. This could be also used to update indexes immediately while mail is being delivered.