[Dovecot] POP3 how do I either retrieve spam or never put mail in spam?

[Tony Nelson]

On 10-04-04 19:59:43, Tony Nelson wrote:
> On 10-04-04 14:07:49, Thomas Leuxner wrote:
> > Am 04.04.2010 um 19:53 schrieb Tony Nelson:
> > 
> > > I retrieve my mail from dovecot over POP3.  Sometimes dovecot
> > > delivers a message into the spam mailbox, even though I have no
> > > spam filtering enabled.
> > 
> > Dovecot does not do that. Your MUA such as Thunderbird might do
> this,
> > or a milter or some other process on your MTA may do that, but
> > Dovecot won't (unless you tell it to sieve mail for you and file
> into
> > the spam mailbox).
> 
> Well, here is something you do not know about dovecot.
> 
> []# zgrep 'dovecot.*spam' /var/log/maillog-20100404.gz
> Apr  3 17:14:12 rapidxen dovecot: deliver(tonynelson):  
> msgid=<164696033923172620887 at xpsp5>: saved mail to spam
> []#
> 
> deliver sends the message wherever it is directed, apparently in this
> case by an anti-spam header added by an intermediate mail server.
 ...

Bah.  After figuring out how deliver was being run, which I see is in 
the /etc/procmailrc I copied from the Dovecot WIKI[1], all I have to do 
is comment out the extra lines[2] that direct spam elsewhere.  Those 
lines are probably needed under some circumstances.
 
[1] <http://wiki.dovecot.org/procmail>
[2] :0 w
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
| $DELIVER -m spam

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