question concerning junk folder

Steffen Kaiser skdovecot at smail.inf.fh-brs.de
Thu Nov 10 13:16:16 UTC 2016


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On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Rajesh M wrote:

> using centos 6.5, qmailtoaster, dovecot, spamassassin.
>
> i found that junk folder is specified under
>
> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/15-mailboxes.conf
>
> the issue is that this folder is getting created automatically and genuine emails from both within the server and also from external domains are being routed to the Junk folder. all these emails are not scanned by spamassasin.
>
> i wish to disable to creation of Junk folder and also routing of emails to the Junk folder.

the user's mail client moves the messages there, because it believe the 
message is SPAM.

> #####################
> # NOTE: Assumes "namespace inbox" has been defined in 10-mail.conf.
> namespace inbox {
>  # These mailboxes are widely used and could perhaps be created automatically:
>  mailbox Drafts {
>    special_use = \Drafts
>  }
>  mailbox Junk {
>    special_use = \Junk
>  }

this setting just tells a client, "Junk" *should* be used as junk folder.

>  mailbox Trash {
>    special_use = \Trash
>  }
> #####################
>
> rajesh
>
>

- -- 
Steffen Kaiser
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