POPFILE-PIPE(8)

✨ popfile-pipe — NAME 💖

ok so bestie, gather round: popfile-pipe is literally the little cutie that allows message classification via a pipe. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

this is the POPFILE-PIPE(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, and we're gonna read it together like it's a group chat, no cap. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

popfile-pipe

that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, just vibes. she's lowkey mysterious like that. ✨

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so the pipe.pl script is the main character here. what it does is give you a way to have POPFile classify messages that get piped to it by other processes — and those other processes can then take that classified message and deal with it however they want. iconic behavior, fr fr. 👑

here's the flow, bestie, step by step:

1. it accepts the raw message text on stdin — and yes, you should include the headers. don't skip the headers, i'm begging. 🙈
2. then it classifies the message and does one or both of these things, as configured in POPFile:
   • inserts the POPFile X-Text-Classification
   • and/or performs Subject line modification
3. finally it emits the now-classified message on stdout — including the new header and the modified Subject line. slay. 💖

⚠️ real talk: you should run this script as user and group popfile, because otherwise you're gonna hit permission problems with the data that the daemon uses. do not fight the daemon on this, she will win. 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• popfile-insert(8)
• popfile-bayes(8)

go read those too, they're part of the friend group. 🫶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). thank you Lucas, you ate. 🌟

and that's a wrap on the POPFILE-PIPE(8) page from the System Manager's Manual, dated May 2, 2004 — ancient, vintage, still serving looks. periodt. 💅🎀✨