[Dovecot] IMAP and sa-learn(spamassassin)

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi at onet.eu> wrote:
> Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
>> On 31.10.2010, at 16.40, Ingo Thierack wrote:
>>
>>> is it somehow possible to use sa-learn on sdbox-mailboxes?
>>
>> Use doveadm fetch to extract the
>> mails. http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Search has example how
>> to go through all messages in a mailbox.
>
> Another alternative may be to start spamd (spamassassin daemon) for the
> non root user serving request via unix socket.
>
> * Spamd do not have to be run as root
> * Spamd can listen on unix socket
> * Spamd can be configured via command line options to accept requests
>   for learning
>
> * there is Mail::SpamAssassin::Client perl module for perl script to
>   contact spamd "like spamc"
> * there is Mail::IMAP::Simple perl module to access IMAP mailboxes
>
> Such approach would allow "fetch one, learn one delete one" instead of
> "fetch all, learn all, delete all".

It DOES NOT require source code modifications of spamd.

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