[imp] Re: [horde] Filtering based on headers

[Ramon Kagan]

Well that's exactly it.

I personally use procmail, but this is for my users.  I would estimate
60-75% maybe even more are not technically inclined.  They just want
instructions on how to do things.  They know nothing of the unix/linux
world, and never will.  I need to provide a mechanism for them to filter
spam, so...

Ramon Kagan
York University, Computing and Network Services
Unix Team -  Intermediate System Administrator
(416)736-2100 #20263
rkagan@yorku.ca

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Michael M Slusarz wrote:

> Quoting Ryan Gallagher <ryan@studiesabroad.com>:
>
> | Quoting Ramon Kagan <rkagan@YorkU.CA>:
> |
> | > HI,
> | >
> | > Using IMP3.1 is there a way to filter mail based on headers.  We're
> | using
> | > SpamAssassin and would like to filter based on the header
> | > X-Spam-Status: Yes
> | >
> | > So far all I see are filters for To, From, cc, subject, body.
> | >
> | > Thanks in advance,
> | >
> | > Ramon Kagan
>
> Part of the reason I rewrote/revised the filtering code was to allow
> filtering on other headers besides the five listed above.  The problem
> still lies in that imap_search() does not have an option to search for
> headers other than the five listed above.  Instead, you have to do an
> imap_search() for 'TEXT' - which searches ALL text in ALL messages in the
> mailbox.  This might be a potential performance hit (although, thinking
> about it a bit more, it is probably nearly as costly to search via headers
> since imap_search() would have to parse each message to grab the headers
> anyway....)  Hmmm.  Maybe this is not such a performance problem after
> all...
>
> I guess I will take a look and see what I can come up with.  It is still
> probably better to filter using procmail or similar mechanism, but I
> realize that sometimes this is not an option (especially for novice users
> or users without access to a shell account, for example).
>
> michael
>
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