[Spambayes] Email client integration -- what's needed?

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Piers Haken" wrote
> it would seem to me that instead of trying to cram these message store
> capabilities into a protocol that just doesn't support it (POP3), why
> not use a protocol that does (IMAP4)?
> 
> i'd suggest writing a simple IMAP 'proxy' (possibly single-user) that
> retrieves messages from a 'real' mail server via POP3, scans the
> incoming messages, classifies them, then puts them in the corresponding
> folders. the IMAP server can then reclassify/retrain on the messages
> when they are moved between folders (just as the outlook plugin does).

The problems with this approach are to do with the complexity of IMAP.
It's a heavy weight protocol, and lots of different IMAP clients abuse
it in slightly different ways each. 

Anthony

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