[nzlug] Mail + antiSpam + antivirus - your preference?

[Jim Cheetham]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:29:15PM +1300, Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Jim Cheetham wrote:
> >datastore. Metadata is encoded in the filename (i.e. is the item 
> >unread?), and that makes it difficult to use file-level synchronisation 
> >tools (rsync, unison).
> >
> 1164477803.H675852P26533.<myserver>:2,ST
> Is that "2,ST" what you mean?

Yeah, although I haven't studied the naming in detail, IIRC the suffix
changes as the message becomes read. Moving things between IAP folders
is represented as moving them between physical folders too.

The inefficiency of rsync isn't too bad an overhead, and perhaps I'm
worrying too much about it :-) But I could spend bandwidth synching a
message as it came in, and then after it became read I'd see it as an
effective delete and new creation; then moving it to another folder the
same happens, so for each message *whose content has not changed* I've
potentially had to transmit it 3 times.

At the moment I'm not rsyncing the Maildir, I'm just cacheing it locally
on a couple of different machines' mail applications, which isn't perfect
but is probably good enough :-)

-jim