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[webmin-devel] Adding a folder to the mailbox module in Usermin

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Hi Jamie,

I have developed a spam filter Usermin module (frontend for SpamBayes, 
SpamBouncer, and some custom Procmail recipes), and the way it is 
trained is by moving spams into a Junk mbox in the users home directory.

If I add this folder manually to the Usermin folders using the Manage 
folders page, things work fine, and I'm able to dump spams into the box 
using Usermin.

Is there a reasonably standard way I can add this box to the boxes 
managed by the mailbox module when the user first enables the spam 
filtering module?  I see the following in the .usermin/mailbox/config file:

mailboxes=/home/joe/Junk
folder_/home/joe/Junk=Junk

Is this all Usermin needs?  Is there a routine I should call, or just 
add it via parsing the config file myself?

I notice there is also an index cache file in the directory...is that 
generated automatically, or do I need to trigger the first generation of 
it when adding the folder?

Thanks!
-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com

Re: [webmin-devel] Adding a folder to the mailbox module in Usermin

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:
> Hi Jamie,
> 
> I have developed a spam filter Usermin module (frontend for SpamBayes, 
> SpamBouncer, and some custom Procmail recipes), and the way it is 
> trained is by moving spams into a Junk mbox in the users home directory.
> 
> If I add this folder manually to the Usermin folders using the Manage 
> folders page, things work fine, and I'm able to dump spams into the box 
> using Usermin.
> 
> Is there a reasonably standard way I can add this box to the boxes 
> managed by the mailbox module when the user first enables the spam 
> filtering module?  I see the following in the .usermin/mailbox/config file:
> 
> mailboxes=/home/joe/Junk
> folder_/home/joe/Junk=Junk
> 
> Is this all Usermin needs?  Is there a routine I should call, or just 
> add it via parsing the config file myself?

That's all Usermin needs, and there is no function for simplifying 
folder addition (although the read_file and write_file standard 
functions make editing name=value files like that easier).

By the way, you could also add a folder by creating a file in ~/mail , 
since everything in that directory is automatically picked up by Usermin.

> I notice there is also an index cache file in the directory...is that 
> generated automatically, or do I need to trigger the first generation of 
> it when adding the folder?

Those index files get generated automatically to speed up access to 
the mailbox ..

  - Jamie

Re: [webmin-devel] Adding a folder to the mailbox module in Usermin

[Joe C. <jo...@sw...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> Joe Cooper wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jamie,
>>
>> I have developed a spam filter Usermin module (frontend for SpamBayes, 
>> SpamBouncer, and some custom Procmail recipes), and the way it is 
>> trained is by moving spams into a Junk mbox in the users home directory.
>>
>> If I add this folder manually to the Usermin folders using the Manage 
>> folders page, things work fine, and I'm able to dump spams into the 
>> box using Usermin.
>>
>> Is there a reasonably standard way I can add this box to the boxes 
>> managed by the mailbox module when the user first enables the spam 
>> filtering module?  I see the following in the .usermin/mailbox/config 
>> file:
>>
>> mailboxes=/home/joe/Junk
>> folder_/home/joe/Junk=Junk
>>
>> Is this all Usermin needs?  Is there a routine I should call, or just 
>> add it via parsing the config file myself?
> 
> 
> That's all Usermin needs, and there is no function for simplifying 
> folder addition (although the read_file and write_file standard 
> functions make editing name=value files like that easier).
> 
> By the way, you could also add a folder by creating a file in ~/mail , 
> since everything in that directory is automatically picked up by Usermin.

We will always have a ~/Junk mbox.  This has to exist for all of the 
other stuff to work (including IMAP users, etc.).  I thought of creating 
a symbolic link to that from ~/mail, which also seems to work.  Do you 
see any trouble with going that route instead?

>> I notice there is also an index cache file in the directory...is that 
>> generated automatically, or do I need to trigger the first generation 
>> of it when adding the folder?
> 
> 
> Those index files get generated automatically to speed up access to the 
> mailbox ..

Ok.

Thanks for the quick reply, Jamie!
-- 
Joe Cooper <jo...@sw...>
Web caching appliances and support.
http://www.swelltech.com

Re: [webmin-devel] Adding a folder to the mailbox module in Usermin

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Joe Cooper wrote:
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Joe Cooper wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jamie,
>>>
>>> I have developed a spam filter Usermin module (frontend for 
>>> SpamBayes, SpamBouncer, and some custom Procmail recipes), and the 
>>> way it is trained is by moving spams into a Junk mbox in the users 
>>> home directory.
>>>
>>> If I add this folder manually to the Usermin folders using the Manage 
>>> folders page, things work fine, and I'm able to dump spams into the 
>>> box using Usermin.
>>>
>>> Is there a reasonably standard way I can add this box to the boxes 
>>> managed by the mailbox module when the user first enables the spam 
>>> filtering module?  I see the following in the .usermin/mailbox/config 
>>> file:
>>>
>>> mailboxes=/home/joe/Junk
>>> folder_/home/joe/Junk=Junk
>>>
>>> Is this all Usermin needs?  Is there a routine I should call, or just 
>>> add it via parsing the config file myself?
>>
>>
>>
>> That's all Usermin needs, and there is no function for simplifying 
>> folder addition (although the read_file and write_file standard 
>> functions make editing name=value files like that easier).
>>
>> By the way, you could also add a folder by creating a file in ~/mail , 
>> since everything in that directory is automatically picked up by Usermin.
> 
> 
> We will always have a ~/Junk mbox.  This has to exist for all of the 
> other stuff to work (including IMAP users, etc.).  I thought of creating 
> a symbolic link to that from ~/mail, which also seems to work.  Do you 
> see any trouble with going that route instead?

That should work OK as well, as usermin does not use trick of writing 
to a temp file and then re-naming it to the original mailbox when 
deleting .. at least, not yet.

  - Jamie