Replacement for antispam plugin

Aki Tuomi aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi
Wed Mar 1 08:11:48 UTC 2017


Some answers inline.

Aki


On 01.03.2017 00:42, Andy R wrote:
> Greetings to the list :)
>
>
> I've been meaning to ask a couple of questions about the imapsieve for
> antispam.
>
>
> Firstly, I guess that the example at the bottom of the page
> "https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Pigeonhole/Sieve/Plugins/IMAPSieve"  is
> meant to link to the new example at
> "https://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve" now?
>
Thanks, fixed.

>
> Also... in "imapsieve_mailboxX_name = ${directory}"  is the string a
> literal, or is it working with the 'special use' flagged directories
> from the xx-mailboxes.conf? I'm asking as though I only have a few
> users to worry about, different mail clients each have their favourite
> special folders. IE thunderbird uses "junk" but one Outlook express
> version likes "Junk E-mail" and I have a different favourite from
> another version of OE too. So in mailboxes.conf I just added extra
> special use lines which seemed to make things happy. Otherwise I ended
> up with the server configured 'spam' folder showing as basic folder,
> and then each client adding it's own chosen spamfolder each time too.
>

It is a mailbox mask, not special use flag.

>
> But, if the imapsieve is only matching to literal foldernames, should
> I just duplicate the trigger lines for each type of junk folder or is
> there a method to have the sieve script enumerate all the options
> listed by 'special use'  or is there a better method for this? I want
> to put the spam-mail-filing script as a global sieve script as all
> users will need it, rather than duplicating out for each user.
>

There is no way to match special use folders at the moment, but I like
the idea.

>
>
> Many thanks ,
>
>
> Andy R
>
>
> On 10/02/2017 09:06, Aki Tuomi wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Since antispam plugin is deprecated and we would really prefer people
>> not to use it, we wrote instructions on how to replace it with
>> IMAPSieve. Comments and suggestions are most welcome.
>>
>> https://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/AntispamWithSieve
>>
>> ---
>> Aki Tuomi
>> Dovecot oy
>>



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