Hi, Thanks for sharing this with us, it's a good exemple of amavis' customs.
2014-09-16 6:44 GMT+02:00 André Rodier <[email protected]>: > Hi everybody, > > There is one feature, I missed when I stopped to use gmail, which is the > automatic recognition of 'Important' messages. I am actually trying to > replicate that, with a custom amavis perl script, and a virtual folder in > 'Dovecot'. So far, it's encouraging. > > I even can create rules in Thunderbird to automatically tag messages as > 'Important'. > > So far, the script tries to 'classify' emails in 4 categories: > - Internal: an internal email inside the company. > - List: Official mailing list, since it's containing valid 'List-Id' etc. > - Bulk: A mailing list email, without the header > - Private: a private email, sent from someone. > > So, my dovecot filter is getting all 'Internal' and 'Private' emails to > create a virtual folder called 'Important'. > > Please, understand that this 'feature' is an added value to spam > filtering. It's very useful for people who are subscribe to many mailing > lists using their main email address. They often want to have important > emails automatically recognised without loosing access to mailing lists. > > Since I could not find appropriate documentation about Amavis hooks, > especially an up to date reference of $msginfo, the perl script is probably > not optimised, and it's here I need your help. However, it's doing the job > so far, and my users are thrilled. The code is simple, readable and > optimised enough to have no impact on performances (so far). > > Notes and Todo: > 1 - The bulk email recognition is probably were there is more place for > improvements > 2 - I need to stop analysing emails marked as Spam. > 3 - Internal emails recognition may not work in some cases, I need your > help here. > 4 - A nice to have feature will be per-user rules, using a simple database > of important emails senders. > > The feature 4 is essentially the missing point to have the same features > as gmail. > > I am neither a Perl hacker, so the perl's experts around may have some > ideas. > > If you want to help, or if you are interested, the code is here: > https://github.com/arodier/emclass > > Comments are welcome. > André >
