[Dovecot] Feature Request - wild idea - folders for executing programs

[Gordon Tyler]

Marc Perkel wrote:
> I have a wild idea for a feature that is somewhat unusual, would be very 
> powerful, and easy to implement. What I want is ...
> 
> Special folders that when someone drags a message into them - it pipes 
> the message into a program.
> 
> The reason I want this is - for example - reporting of spam. Suppose you 

At the moment, I use the following method for my single user on my home 
mail machine: cron.

Yep, every hour I have a local user cronjob which runs a script that 
retrains Spamprobe with the messages in my spamprobe-isspam and 
spamprobe-notspam folders (Maildirs) and then moves those messages to 
either the Junk folder or the Inbox.

This may not be the best way to go about it (especially the moving of 
message files between folders) but it works for me.

However, that said, I think your idea would be very useful with one 
slight change/clarification:

> executable-folder spam-missed {
>  command = /usr/bin/sa-learn spam
>  user = spamd
>  group = spamd

For user and group I'd like to be able to specify that the owner of the 
account (in my case, my user) should be the one executing the command, 
since the Spamprobe database is local to my home directory.

Ciao,
Gordon