[Dovecot] Dovecot aspects of fighting spam

Phil Howard ttiphil at gmail.com
Tue Jun 1 17:02:56 EEST 2010


On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 09:54, Frank Elsner <frank at moltke28.b.shuttle.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 09:42:18 -0400 Phil Howard wrote:
>> I see no documents in the Dovecot documents wiki on how Dovecot
>> features can be used in the fight against spam.  One hit came up in a
>> search, and it was about how to fight spam in the MoinMoin Wiki itself
>> (e.g. TextCHAs and such).
>
> Fighting against SPAM is the MTA's job.
> Dovecot's job is to provide access to the mailboxes for the users.

Dovecot would still be involved ... getting detected spam into a
folder for users that don't want false positives to be deleted, and a
feedback folder for recycling false negatives into detection training.


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