From: mouss (no email)
Date: Sun May 15 2005 - 19:43:15 EDT
Matt Fretwell wrote:
> Would leaving the mail only index option be useful for the paranoid type?
>( The people who refuse to run anything unless it is chrooted and has been
>torture tested for two years :) Or, do I just rip the smtp release mech
>out, and pretend that bit never existed?
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just drop the smtp way. people from the content filtering area are
already having a problem deciding how to retrain a filter, and up so
far, there is no simple solution outside imap and webmail (asking users
to forward email as attachment just doens't count). this just has proved
unusable.
if you are in a place where imap is used, then use imap: let people move
their spam/ham to specific folders. this is the best thing since it
doesn't require users to do anything but use their MUA. all that
quarantine stuff then just disappears....
otherwise, focus on http. unlike other protocols, it is more recent and
while not optimal, it has many advantages over smtp and others.
also, you can implement a simple but fancy gui in html/php/cgi/ssi....
You just can't do that in smtp without developing MUA plugins.
> Even with http, I would assume that requires passwording the
>directories/indexes, to be effectively secure?
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It only takes few seconds to add authentication to an apache directory.
judging from the archives, doing this in smtp is another story...
BTW. I'm working on a php/mysql based interface to quarantine mgmt
(among other things). I however have no release date.
have a good luck.
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