Deleting IMAP mail from shell script

[Andrzej Adam Filip]

Sun Advocate Webmaster wrote:
> I have a simple question concerning mail deletion in Cyrus mailboxes. I 
> have spamassassin set up, with two mailboxes "spam at domain.com" and 
> "notspam at domain.com". A shell script runs periodicly and parses these 
> messages (sa-learn compiles training data from the messages). After that 
> parsing is done, it needs to empty the mailboxes.
> 
> I was going to add a "rm" command, but I'm thinking that will cause data 
> corruption with cyrus.
> 
> Is there a better way to do this?

SpamAssassin is wrriten in perl (module named Mail::SpamAssassin).

Have you considered writing you script in perl and using some CPAN.org 
module for accessing *IMAP* mailboxes? [e.g. Net::IMAP::Simple]

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Andrzej [en:Andrew] Adam Filip anfi at priv.onet.pl anfi at xl.wp.pl
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