Dear clapf-users, I wonder does anyone use (and really) need ldap support? Ldap can be used to store user preferences, such as to determine what to do with spam.
The latest stable (0.3.29) version has added introduced real sql support and (at least from the developer point of view) it would be much more easier to store everyting in an SQL database (MySQL or SQLite3). I just finished SQLite3 support for the spamdrop utility. And testing (I mean using) it for a week or so. It may prove to be useful if you have multiple users with different email patterns and you don't want then to share their token database. Currently the clapf binary has a hard time to apply personal token data to any single user (unless the email has only one recipient). I may try the LMTP protocol instead of SMTP. The spamdrop utility (which can be used from the maildrop LDA) makes this a piece-of-cake. So I encourage you to give a chance to spamdrop. I turned off the antispam feture in clapf then I configured maildrop to pass every incoming email through the spamdrop utility which checks whether the message is spam or not. I also plan to redraw the spam quarantine and would like you to tell me what features you want from it or do you ever want to use the spam quarantine. If you are not interested in the spam quarantine, I may throw it away from the source code. You may noticed in the 0.3.29 version that I wrote a little daemon called qs. It implements a query cache to speed up the query of the tokens from the sql backend. It uses a threaded model instead of forking to use only the minimum required memory. It may listen on a TCP or Unix domain socket. It's important to note that it offers no authentication so it may not be good for you if your users may abuse it by accessing it directly. I also use clapf on a smarthost (a mail gateway of a web server) and I let qs to load all the tokens into memory then let clapf query the tokens from the cache. It resulted a very fast operation suitable for handling a high volume email traffic. If you have any questions or you miss a feature, or you need some help deploying clapf just let me know. Digitally yours, SJ.
