Patch for review.

[David Relson]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 13:26:23 -0500
Gyepi SAM <gyepi at praxis-sw.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:57:50AM -0600, bwmlist at satx.rr.com wrote:
> > I couldn't find this functionality anywhere in the documentation,
> > and needed it for an implementation.  That functionality being:
> > redirect spam message to a specified mailbox.  I didn't want to use
> > a script and pipe output through any other 3rd party tools, due to
> > speed.  Here's the patch,  i'm not a great coder, so if there are
> > better ways of implementing please tell me.
> > 
> > and if this is duplicated effort... sorry i haven't been able to
> > search the archives and i just joined the list.
> > 
> > [Patch]
> [snip]
> 
> I oppose this patch on the grounds that the functionality is
> unnecessary and can be easily achieved with a mail filter.  qmail has
> condredirect, sendmail can use procmail or maildrop and so can postfix
> if it does not have a more native filtering mechanism.  The mail has
> to be filtered eventually anyway.
> 
> 
> -Gyepi

Gyepi,

I agree with you.  Bogofilter's purpose is the reading and classifying
of email, not modifying it or redirecting it.  Of course, bogofilter
does add the X-Bogosity line to aid filters in knowing how the message
has been classified.

David