Jani Partanen wrote:
Database quarantine is something I really would like to see.
For what purpose?
I thought about this from a speed perspective (in particular when
sorting by criteria such as confidence levels). However, simple text
indexes achieves this pretty well without the database dependency.
Is there another benefit of moving to a database I hadn't thought about?
As mentioned elsewhere, moving the logs to a database would suit me a
lot, so I'm looking for good excuses!
On the basis of "picking the best tool for the job" and "not reinventing
the wheel" either a database or an IMAP server would fit; suitability
for handling email specifically might suggest IMAP over database though,
not least the fact that (if necessary) a mail client could be configured
to talk to IMAP pretty easily, eg for sending back missed spam.
Alex Tomlins wrote:
I'd second that...
I'm not sure about the IMAP idea. Something I like about dspam at the
moment is that it is a self-contained solution (that's most of why I
moved to it from spamassassin). If you start feeding stuff out to
IMAP servers etc, you end up with more external dependencies.
This seems to be a good argument against IMAP servers *AND* database
servers.
If anything, it's more likely that a typical mail server will have an
IMAP server already present than a database.
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