Re: [Evolution-hackers] spam filtering

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 13:43, Steve Heggood wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:27, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Plugin will be shared library which will be loaded by dlopen/dlsym. Evo
> > will get SpamFilterStruct by dlsym, check api_version and then use
> > supplied methods.
> I would like to see pipe out/in supported so that spamassassin could
> be called.

radek's proposal is that spam filtering was done in a dynamically
runtime-loaded module... this module would likely pipe to spamassassin
or the like.

there's no reason there needs to be a second pipe/exec feature for spam
filtering.

> 
> Also, it would be GREAT if a mechahnism could pe provided for auto
> imports.

I don't see what this has to do with spam filtering?

> 
> Suppose you had /evolution/spool/spam60 that contained 
> mbox format messages that external filter had classified as 60 percent
> spam probability.
> In the mail scan cycle, have evolution check the spool directory, place
> a lock file there, import the data into a folder matching the filename,
> and release the lock.
> This would be useful in areas other than spam as well.

huh? I don't understand the point of this at all. assuming this was to
seed the spam filter (bayesian algorithm?), why couldn't the bayesian
spam filter plugin code do this? :-)

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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com