My .qmail-default file says: | /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox
I thought that mailfilter works but I actually didn't get any emails for a little bit there. I disabled it and started receiving email again. Ryan -----Original Message----- From: Bob Hutchinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:05 PM To: toaster@shupp.org Subject: Re: [toaster] Message Quarantine 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 -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------
