On Sat, 2017-10-14 at 14:45 +0100, RW wrote: > spamkiller looks to have been been written for use with fetchmail; > Indeed it was, and ran that way until I got pissed off with the bugs in fetchmail - especially the one that caused it to leave delivered mail on the remote server, never to be automatically cleaned up. At that point I replaced it with getmail and went on using the same mda script and spamkiller.
The quarantine directory works well for me: I prefer spam to not pass through my MTA because thats the easy way to keep it out of my mail archive. I wrote a PHP script to show what is in quarantine and to display it if I think it needs to be inspected. Martin