dovecot - Nov 2013 - s it safe to manipulate Maildir files directly?

> Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 08:40:31 +0100
> From: Oli Schacher <dovecot at lists.wgwh.ch>
> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 21:49:59 -0800
> David Henkel-Wallace <gumby at henkel-wallace.org> wrote:
> 
>> Having the cron job find the messages and train spamassassin is no
>> problem.  The question is how to move the messages.  Is it safe to
>> simply rename the files from my cron job?
> [...]
>> If I have to go through to Dovecot I am afraid I'd need the
user's
>> credentials, which is not appropriate.
> 
> you can do all this with doveadm scripts. 
Oli, thanks for the suggestion.  It hadn't occured to me to consider
doveadm.  That's exactly the right tool.

Regards,
David