On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 04:20:17PM +0000, Feargal Reilly wrote: > Okay... didn't expect that much discussion, glad for it though. > Turns out most of this comes down to your philosophy of what dbmail should do. > > Christian Warden suggested using the -m flag of dbmail-smtp to deliver > it to a seperate mailbox. I wasn't actually aware of that option as > it's not mentioned in the man page, and it does the job pretty well > (although it'll hurt my head to figure out the sendmail config...).
Ahh, there's the problem, your choice of MTA :) > However, as Michael H?usler pointed out, it does have the limitation > of being hard-coded in the MTA, whereas I believe it would be better > to allow it to be optionally set by the end user. The potential for > end-user configuration is one of the core strengths of dbmail in my > eyes. Additionally, for those who have separate servers dedicated to > scanning incoming mail, they may not with for the MTA on the dbmail > host to spawn additional filtering mechanisms, and prefer to use a > lightweight MTA to hand it on to dbmail. The destination mailbox doesn't have to be hard-coded into the MTA. For example, I configured a transport (Exim) that takes addresses of the form /username~mailbox/ and delivers them to the correct mailbox using dbmail-smtp. The mailbox to deliver to is the result of a user-configurable filter which is stored in the users table in the database. > It certainly is a good alternative for people who are doing the > scanning on the same server, and who don't care for end-user > configurability, so I will add it to my 'things to document' list. > > What didn't get discussed however, and I thought this would generate > more controversy, was the idea of sending a summary to the user as > part of the maintenance run. Do people think this should be part of > dbmail-maintenance, or should it be a separate run? I think separate. > Finally, as I mentioned, I have no experience with IMAP, so should a > spam mailbox be called 'Spam', '/Spam', or something else? 'Spam' is fine, or 'Quarantine/Spam' or similar. xn
