dovecot - Jul 2010 - maildir / deliver question

Hi all,

I have the following situation: On a qmail toaster I am running (with dovecot
1.2.12 as the IMAP server), spam mail gets automatically put into a 'this
might be spam' folder (per user).

Now, every user has the opportunity to move that mail into either a 'learn
as spam' or a 'this was ham' folder and the mail items will be
treated accordingly.

As a cronjob, I run a script that loops through all the users' folders and
either learns as spam and deletes or learns as ham and moves back to the
user's inbox.

My questions now are these:

1.) Is there any danger regarding  maildir consistency in directly moving mail
items about?

2.) Could I somehow use deliver to move the mails? I think I can recall that
other LDAs (maildrop?) allow for that? This would of course be preferred as the
maildir cache would also still be optimized after the operation.

If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate this.

Thanks a lot for your help and this great tool!

Martin

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On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 09:14 +0200, Martin Waschbuesch wrote:
> 1.) Is there any danger regarding  maildir consistency in directly moving
mail items about?
No. Assuming you use "mv" and not "cp" (and it's all in
the same
filesystem) so that the move is atomic.
> 2.) Could I somehow use deliver to move the mails? I think I can recall
that other LDAs (maildrop?) allow for that? This would of course be preferred as
the maildir cache would also still be optimized after the operation.
"deliver -u user -m mailboxname" could be used to save new mails.
Maybe
a save + delete would work too. I don't really think it's worth it.
> If anyone has any suggestions, I'd really appreciate this.
See the antispam plugin:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/dovecot-antispam