Filters That Fight Back

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Jason Rennie wrote:

> Might be worth building the new database somewhere else (e.g.
> /tmp/.bogofilter)

Absolutely. Building the database takes some time. Results
during that build would be pretty arbitrary.

> and overwriting the old database once the new one is 
> finished.  Though, if you have no control over when e-mail is 
> incorporated this would be a bit tricky since you'd need to obtain a lock 
> on the old database before overwriting it...

In practice, what can happen? The one mail which might be
checked at that time might not be rated correctly (maybe due
to a bogofilter failure). No problem. If you want to use -u
that might be a bit more fun, in theory.

pi