[lug] IMAP spam filtering

[Peter Hutnick]

Michael D. Hirsch said:

>> I don't think there is really any such thing as an IMAP mail filter.
>> It either has to happen at transfer (SMTP), delivery (usually
>> procmail), or in the user agent (KMail).
>
> Actually, I found imapassassin on freshmeat that looks like it will do
> the  job.  It is a small perl script that uses the spamassassin and
> impaclient  perl libraries to do what I want.  I haven't used it yet, so
> I can't  confirm that it works.
>
>> Even if there is I don't think you'd want it, since IMAP doesn't do
>> anything but listen on a port when you aren't connected.  You'd end up
>> doing work in an interactive process that could have been done in the
>> background.
>
> Huh?  I'm asking for a daemon to query the server and filter my mail.
> Why  will it be an interactive process?