27 Jan 2003 obi   » (Journeyer)

mwh, jaq

The problem with procmail and exim is that its rules are too static to my taste. I'd like to whip up a filtering system for me and my users, where by simply using an imap client to move messages to specific folders you create your "rules".

On regular intervals word lists/tokens would be created for every folder (maildir), and incoming mail would be matched to the most appropriate folder (based on what's already in it).

This would make it simple for my non-technical users who cannot set up a procmailrc (or exim filter)

Additionally, sometimes I put certain private mail together with mail from a specific mailing list. (if it's on thesame topic or whatever). A dynamic/automatic filtering system would take this into account too.

Such a system is currently used for spam for a lot of mailfilters and MUA's - I don't see why it's use should be limited to spam/ham classifying.

mwh:Thanks for the pointer to ifile - i'm going to look into it.

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