From: James Britt <jamesUNDERBARb@...>
Date: 2004-11-10T10:23:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Mozilla?

Hal Fulton wrote:

> Is there any Ruby code out there that can interact with Mozilla
> (email, I mean)?
> 
> I'm interested in both browsing and email, but right now I am
> looking at email primarily.
> 
> For example, I'd like to write Ruby code of my own to filter spam.
> So I'd like to connect to the remote POP server (pretty easy) and
> grab the messages and analyze them.

I'm doing something like that myself, with qmail, spamassasin, and Ruby.

I have a cron job on the mail server that checks mail and deletes items 
that meet obvious spam criteria.  I have another Ruby script that gets 
passed mail after spamassasin has rendered judgment.  That would be the 
better place to delete obvious crap, but I don't know how to do this 
without annoying qmail, which expects to be passed something once Ruby 
is done with it.

I believe there are ways to do some conditional stuff in .qmail files, 
but I haven't had the time to figure it out.

I'm reluctant to experiment too much to soon, for fear of losing mail.

> 
> But then, how do I get the filtered data to Moz? I *could* set up
> my own local POP server and forward all messages there... that
> seems like overkill.

Is this for a machine that does not currently have a mail server 
running?  Or are you  looking to pull mail down to your local machine, 
processes it, and then pass it to Mozilla?

I wonder if you can just write the mail to the mail files directly?

Or run a local "mail" proxy so that Mozilla thinks it is fetching mail, 
but is really just getting passed files from disk.

James