autodaemon [was: mailbox classificataion]

[Clint Adams]

> What's so difficult about going the "formail" route?  Or if you have
> Maildir formatted mailboxes:
>   for i in *; do bogofilter -whatever < $i; done

The problem is that people don't like the repeated overhead for each
message.  A long time ago, ESR added autodaemon support to bogofilter;
bogofilter would fork itself as a daemon, and successive invocations
would access the database through the daemon proxy.  As I recall, this
was error-prone at best, and made bogofilter completely unusable on SMP
machines.

A working implementation of the autodaemonization or a bona fide daemon
(as employed by spamassassin) could vanquish the wasted startup time.

Of course, formail -s bogofilter doesn't bother me.