[Dovecot] A Dovecot Sieve spam filter question.

[Thomas Harold]

On 12/30/2009 5:56 PM, aja-lists at tni.org wrote:
> On 12/30/2009 10:08 PM, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote:
>
>> As I understand ":contains" tests presence of the sub-string
>> => so you can test 'at least n consecutive stars present' ('n stars OR
>> more')
>
> Okay, thanks, after some searching I see that quite some people
> apparently have this working successully, for example here :
>
> http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/info/services/imap/sieve
>
> But this (2nd line is one long line) :
>
> require ["fileinto"];
> if header :contains "X-Spam-Level"
> "**************************************************" {
> fileinto "Junk";
> }
>
> simply delivers the gtube test email in the Inbox instead of the Junk
> folder :( No errors in the dovecot-deliver log, what am I missing ?

Probably because after filing it into the Junk folder you also want to 
issue a "stop;" statement to prevent further down rules from firing.

{
     fileinto "Junk";
     stop;
}

(It's a common error that I make all the time.)