autodaemon [was: mailbox classificataion]

[Jake Di Toro]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 03:17:57PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
> Remember that bogofilter has two modes - classifying messages and 
> registering (training).  Classifying expects to receive single messages, 
> such as procmail feeds it.  Registering has code to handle mbox formatted 
> files so that 1 run of bogofilter can process many messages.  Using formail 
> to split a mbox into separate messages and feed them to bogofilter 1 at a 
> time is much slower than giving bogofilter the whole mbox.
> 
> As bogofilter is right now, it can process a mailbox quite quickly.  The 
> downside of that is that bogofilter needs special code to break the mailbox 
> into pieces.  This code is complex and hard to work with.  At the moment it 
> appears to work.

Ummmm, I double checked the licences before this but not the code.
Both bogofilter and formail/procmail are licenced under GPLv2, so why
not just use the code from formail directly.  Either cut&paste and
make mods as necessary, or work a little to modularize the mailbox
splitting part of formail so it could be included as a library or
something.  After all isn't that what OpenSource is supposed to be
about, NOT reinventing the wheel.

If I'm off base, sorry but this seems like a silly argument in the
end.  If the library route is done, it could even be a choice to the
user at configure time.

-- 
Till Later,
Jake