Found It - Re: spam folder and POP users
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Nov 20 22:51:20 UTC 2014
On 11/20/2014 05:29 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I am new to actually running dovecot. I actually still use POP as I
> have for YEARS and thunderbird does not make it easy to convert to
> IMAP...
>
>
> My server is moving all tagged spam into the IMAP spam folder. Very
> nice for the IMAP users, but not for the POP users. Of course the
> server don't know, and the mysql database for users does not have any
> flags for this. Don't want my server to fill up with spam from POP
> users that don't know to check via IMAP.
>
> I am using roundcubemail for the webmail IMAP client. Is there any
> way for POP users to indicate that they do not want spam so nicely
> auto moved to the IMAP spam folder?
>
Obviously I picked this up and did not think through the results. Seemed
good at the time...
mkdir /home/sieve
cat <<EOF>/home/sieve/globalfilter.sieve || exit 1
require "fileinto";
if exists "X-Spam-Flag" {
if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "NO" {
} else {
fileinto "Spam";
stop;
}
}
if header :contains "subject" ["***SPAM***"] {
fileinto "Spam";
stop;
}
EOF
chown -R vmail:mail /home/sieve
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So one option is just to disable this. Another is to work out how each
user can do this if they want...
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