dovecot + Procmail -> junk emails

[Ted Hatfield]

On Mon, 2 Aug 2021, John Stoffel wrote:

>>>>>> "Stephane" == Stephane Magnier <steph.mag220 at netcourrier.com> writes:
>
> Stephane> Having moved from 'mbox' to 'Maildir', I'm trying to use a
> Stephane> way to move a spam email to the Junk folder
>
> Have you looked at 'sieve' and 'pigeonhole' setup?  procmail is old
> old old and completely unsupported.
>
> Stephane> I declared the junk folder as;
>
> Stephane>     namespace inbox {
> Stephane>     type = private
> Stephane>     disabled = no
> Stephane>     ignore_on_failure = no
> Stephane>       list = yes
> Stephane>         subscriptions = yes
> Stephane>     #hidden = no
> Stephane>     #inbox = yes
> Stephane>     #prefix = INBOX/
>
> Stephane>       mailbox "Drafts" {
> Stephane>           auto = subscribe
> Stephane>         special_use = \Drafts
> Stephane>       }
> Stephane>       mailbox "Junk" {
> Stephane>           auto = subscribe
> Stephane>         autoexpunge = 12 weeks
> Stephane>         special_use = \Junk
> Stephane>       }
>
> Stephane>       mailbox "Trash" {
> Stephane>           auto = no
> Stephane>         autoexpunge = 12 weeks
> Stephane>         special_use = \Trash
> Stephane>       }
>
> Stephane>       mailbox "Sent" {
> Stephane>           auto = subscribe
> Stephane>         special_use = \Sent
> Stephane>       }
>
> Stephane>     and spamassassin, very basic
>
> Stephane>             loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf
>
> Stephane>             required_hits 5
> Stephane>             required_score 5
> Stephane>             rewrite_header subject [** SPAM ** ]
> Stephane>             add_header all Status _YESNO_, score=_SCORE_ required=_REQD_ tests=_TESTS_ autolearn=
> Stephane>             _AUTOLEARN_ version=_VERSION_
> Stephane>             spf_timeout 60
>
> Stephane>             rewrite_header to [Email could be SPAM ]
> Stephane>             fold_headers 0
> Stephane>             #defang_mime 0
> Stephane>             report_safe 0
>
> Stephane>     and Procmail.. basic and I used what I found  on the webpage :
> Stephane>     https://wiki.dovecot.org/procmail
>
> This is probably old and should be removed or replaced.  I have
> /etc/dovecot/conf.d/90-sieve.conf which looks like this:
>
> plugin {
>  sieve = ~/.dovecot.sieve
>  sieve_dir = ~/sieve
>  sieve_global_dir =
>  sieve_before = /var/lib/dovecot/sieve/before.d
>  sieve_after = /etc/dovecot/sieve-after
>  sieve_extensions = +spamtest +spamtestplus
>  sieve_spamtest_status_type = score
>  sieve_spamtest_status_header = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+ [(-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+) / -?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\]
>  sieve_spamtest_max_header    = X-Spamd-Result: default: [[:alnum:]]+ [-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+ / (-?[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+)\]
> }
>
> And I have spamassissin scoring my mails, this script to move them
> into 'Junk' as needed:
>
>   # more /etc/dovecot/sieve-after/spam-to-folder.sieve
>   require ["fileinto","mailbox"];
>
>   if header :contains "X-Spam-Flag" "YES" {
>     fileinto :create "Junk";
>     stop;
>   }
>
>
> Cheers,
> John
>
>

John,

There are still a number of people using procmail.  Including me for 
instance.  Rather than removing the page perhaps updating the article 
with a reference to a replacement instead but leaving the procmail 
documentation in place.

Ted