spam filtering using IMAP ?

[Arnd Kohrs <kohrs@castify.net>]

Hi,

enticed by the vivid discussion about spam.el filtering I feel the urge
to ask this silly question again:

Can one spam filter when using nnimap for all email?

I guess the answer is still "NO!".

IMHO the reason for this is that when nnimap splits, it only loads
the headers and not the bodies of the articles, so that the spam
recognition which is based on the bodies may not be used.

However, wouldn't it be possible to tell nnimap.el to download articles
completly (with bodies) when doing the splitting.  AFAIK, then the spam
stuff should be feasable.  (when articles are downloaded they may as
well be copied to cache or agent as well).

On a related note, if articles where downloaded completely they may even
be split into non-imap backends.

Can there be spam filtering for nnimap?

Cheers,
Arnd.