[Bug 217407] mail/dovecot2-antispam-plugin deprecated by dovecot developers

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            Bug ID: 217407
           Summary: mail/dovecot2-antispam-plugin deprecated by dovecot
                    developers
           Product: Ports & Packages
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Individual Port(s)
          Assignee: olgeni at FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: jeff+freebsd at wagsky.com
             Flags: maintainer-feedback?(olgeni at FreeBSD.org)
          Assignee: olgeni at FreeBSD.org

>From Dovecot mailing list:

> Since antispam plugin is deprecated and we would really prefer people
> not to use it, we wrote instructions on how to replace it with
> IMAPSieve. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.

> https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve


As to why, the following was offered:

> It has not been maintained for ages and we have decided to officially
> deprecate it now. We believe that IMAPSieve does this much better than
> this plugin.




For further details, see the Dovecot mailing list February 10, 2017 and
following.

Here is a reference to the chain:

Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2017 15:52:55 +0200 (EET)
From: Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi>
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Message-ID: <711244819.1410.1486907575875 at appsuite-dev.open-xchange.com>
In-Reply-To: <da106ebf-ef04-211d-d159-ae9dc22c640a at dovecot.fi>
References: <da106ebf-ef04-211d-d159-ae9dc22c640a at dovecot.fi>
Subject: Re: Replacement for antispam plugin
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
Importance: Medium
X-OX-Guard-Marker: false
X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.8.4-Rev0
X-Originating-Client: open-xchange-appsuite
X-BeenThere: dovecot at dovecot.org
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> On February 10, 2017 at 10:06 AM Aki Tuomi <aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi!
> Since antispam plugin is deprecated and we would really prefer people
> not to use it, we wrote instructions on how to replace it with
> IMAPSieve. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.
> 
> https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve
> 
> ---
> Aki Tuomi
> Dovecot oy

Hi everyone,

thank you all for your feedback, questions and comments. We have upgraded the
documentation based on this, including information how to exclude Trash folder
in ham script.

Aki

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