Hello guenther, George, Tuesday, September 7, 2004, 2:46:13 AM, Guenther responded to George:
>> I have a cpanel hosting account with spamassassin where you only have >> 3 options on the SA page. I can enable SA, enable a spam box, and >> then another button to edit the user_prefs file. Same here. I enable SA, disable the spam box, and edit the user_prefs file offline and FTP the user_prefs file as I want it back to the server. >> It works fine when I have spam box enabled but when I disabled the >> spam box the spam that used to go to the spam box is delivered into >> the inbox. It shows that the messages are over the required number of >> hits but they are being delivered instead of deleted. >> >> Any ideas on what I did wrong or to make it work? You did nothing wrong. That's the way it's supposed to work. g> SA is not designed to delete or deliver mail (to a SPAM box). It is g> designed to scan and identify SPAM only. Any action taken (like g> delivering or deleting) based on SA's judgement is another apps duty. Exactly. g> As you said, the SA headers are added even if 'moving to the SPAM box' g> is disabled. That's fine as it just means you are not stuck with the g> default SPAM box but you can sort (move, delete, archive, whatever) g> any mails based on the SA score on your local end. So, George, if you don't want the spam to come to your home computer, keep the spam box enabled, check it every so often for mis-flagged non-spam, and then clean it out. (If you don't clean it out, I suspect you'll eventually run out of space, since that spam box probably counts against your total email quota.) If you don't want to manage that spam box, disable it, download all the spam (er, emails), and have your email program on your PC filter the spam into a folder on your PC (or delete it if you're really, really, really confident). Bob Menschel
