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[jira] [Closed] (WHIMSY-30) Redo secmail
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-30?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Sam Ruby closed WHIMSY-30.
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Resolution: Fixed
This was completed several months ago
> Redo secmail
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> Key: WHIMSY-30
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/WHIMSY-30
> Project: Whimsy
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SecMail
> Reporter: Sam Ruby
>
> Currently secmail is a toll that runs on minotaur, reads mbox files, implements a number of heuristics, and writes to svn (documents/received). Issues:
> * infrastructure plans are to retire minotaur
> * mbox files may be going away as a primary mechanism for storing mail
> * the heuristics implemented, while useful, may at times produce incorrect results -- ignoring some files and not handling others correctly.
> * writes to svn is occasionally problematic, which includes both transient problems (svn or LDAP down) and software problems (e.g., workbench leaving around empty directories)
> * overall, having the secmail as a separate process makes error recovery and debugging more difficult. A malformed email (typically spam) can wedge the process entirely.
> The proposal is to install a mail server on whimsy-vm (probably dovecot) and add whimsy-vm to the secretary mail alias. Then change the secretary workbench to parse email from the dovecot mbox files instead of the documents/received directory.
> Advantages:
> * decouples secmail from the infrastructure plans for changing how mail is processed
> * can reduce and/or eliminate heuristics. We can start from scratch (show all emails) and incrementally add rules which will hide emails that match a given pattern.
> * should svn be down, the user of the workbench will quickly be aware of that and will try again later; this is fundamentally more resilient than automated processes.
> * spam will never be put in svn. It also won't be able to wedge the tool. Badly formed emails can simply be deleted from the mbox file.
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