Cyrus (Sieve) and external programs

[David Lang]

FYI, the software I mentioned below is popfile, which seems to have stopped 
major development in 2011, but someone is still fixing it to work with later 
releases

http://getpopfile.org/

Even if you don't use this, you can look at how it works to build a replacement.

David Lang


On Tue, 29 May 2018, David Lang wrote:

> several years ago I used a system that subscribed to the various folders and 
> watched for messages to appear. Unfortunantly, that software was abandoned 
> and I haven't gone looking for a replacement in the last several years.
>
> but it did work very well, at very little load on the system (fastmail was a 
> little concerned at seeing many connections from me, but once they learned 
> that they were mostly idle watching for new message notifications, they 
> relaxed a bit)
>
> David Lang
>
> On Tue, 29 May 2018, Pedro silva wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 10:16:37 +0100
>> From: Pedro silva <psilva at onesource.pt>
>> To: Sven Schwedas <sven.schwedas at tao.at>
>> Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu,
>>     Info-cyrus 
>> <info-cyrus-bounces+psilva=onesource.pt at lists.andrew.cmu.edu>
>> Subject: Re: Cyrus (Sieve) and external programs
>> 
>> Hello Sven,
>> 
>> Thanks for your answer.
>> 
>> Actually I would like to set up a system were a user would move his
>> messages to a spam folder, and by doing so, the message would be sent to
>> the spam learning system.
>> 
>> Ive seen something like this in other distributions (eg.:
>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve) I was just wondering
>> if the same is possible with cyrus or cyrus sieve.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Pedro Silva
>> 
>> On 28-05-2018 15:59, Sven Schwedas wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2018-05-28 16:41, Pedro silva wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm trying to set up a spam learning system, and I would like to pipe
>>>> email places in (for example) the SPAM folder to an external program.
>>>> 
>>>> I have cyrus 2.4.17
>>>> 
>>>> Does any one know how or if this is possible in cyrus (or sieve)?
>>> 
>>> If you want to (read only) process data already received to train your
>>> spam filter, just use the individual mail files in cyrus' spool.
>>> 
>>> If you want to act on mails being received and possibly delete/redirect
>>> them, you normally want hook into your MTA, not cyrus/sieve.
>>> 
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