Using bogofilter with local Maildirs (and offlineimap)

[David Relson]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 12:57:42 +0200
Gaizka wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I've been looking for ways to filter my mail using bogofilter, but i
> don't use procmail, and that's the way i think everyone uses it.
> 
> My setup is:
> - My ISP gives me IMAP access
> - I synchronize it with my desktop with offlineimap.
> - I then have a local tree of Maildirs in my desktop
> 
> I'd like to filter my local tree of Maildirs with bogofilter. 
> 
> Does anybody have a setup similiar to this one? 
> Has anybody written a script to run bogofilter through the Maildirs
> and filter them, or should i write my own?
> 
> Thanks for your attention.

Gaizka,

Welcome to bogofilter!  

offlineimap is a program I've not heard of before, so I'm unaware of
solutions specifically for it.  Does it have a mechanism for running
filters, for example spamassassin?  If so, you should be able to run
bogofilter in a similar manner.

Your idea of a script should work and be pretty easy to implement.  If
you've got the skills, I can rough one out for you.  As hints, I'd use
"find" to get a list of Maildirs, "grep" to ignore ones you don't want
to process, a "for" look to process the files in each Maildir,
bogofilter's return code (0 for spam, 1 for ham), and an "if" to move
spam to a spam folder.

Hope this helps!  If it's not enough, let us know :-)

David