On Tuesday 21 Feb 2006 18:54, wtechgroup wrote:
> That works, but what is making the emails move on the default installation?
> When I had a default toaster installation, emails still moved to the
> postmaster account on their own and those emails were always spam.
.qmail-default was most likely pointed to postmaster
>
> Ryan
>
> On Tuesday 21 Feb 2006 12:51, wtechgroup wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been using the toaster for about a year and a half now
> > with absolutely no complaints. After that long on the net however, my
> > server is finally starting to receive a fair amount of spam. According to
> > everything I've read, spamassassin does not quarantine or delete
> > messages. I've researched this for several days and I'm still puzzled why
> > some
>
> emails
>
> > that are spam get sent to the postmaster account on a domain and some
> > just get tagged as spam and go through to the user. I have our spam rules
>
> locked
>
> > in pretty tight and I've never had complains from my customers, but I'd
> > like to have all tagged messages go to the respective postmaster accounts
> > for each domain. Most of the messages that come through to the user that
> > are tagged are above 10. What is grabbing certain spam messages and
> > moving them to the postmaster accounts? How can I make all tagged
> > messages go to the postmaster account?
>
> This is copied from an email on the vchkpw list:
>
> You would probably want to use maildrop to do this. You could do it at
> a domain level or user level.
>
> In a user .qmail or the domain .qmail-default, you'd call maildrop
>
> |maildrop mailfilter
>
> Then you'd have a mailfilter file, in the same directory as the .qmail
> file, that looks similar to this:
>
> <snip>
> import EXT
> import HOST
> import HOME
> import FROM
>
> MAILDIRQUOTA=`~vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -q [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> if ((/^X-Spam-Flag:.*YES/))
> {
> `test -d ./Maildir/.SPAM`
> if( $RETURNCODE == 1 )
> {
> `maildirmake ./Maildir/.SPAM;chown -R vpopmail.vchkpw
> ./Maildir/.SPAM`
> }
> to "./Maildir/.SPAM/"
> }
>
> to "./Maildir/"
>
>
> </snip>
>
> I'm not totally sure about doing it in the .qmail-default. I think you
> could and then if the mail isn't spam, just don't do anything with the
> message. In that case, the call to vdelivermail should be called as
> normal and deliver the message.
>
> I prefer to filter per user and then have my users access their
> potential spam via webmail. Seems to be working for me. My users like
> not getting tons of junk that they have to download and delete anyway.
> I also have scripts that clean all tagged messages older than 7 days.
> That way if a user doesn't want to, they don't have to check their spam
> on the server and the server drives don't overflow with junk. :)
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ryan
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