Filtering spam (Postfix, procmail)

[James Goode]

Hi,

I've set up an email server with Postfix, Dovecot and Spamassassin. It receives emails, and adds [***** SPAM score *****] to the subject line of spam.

Can I get it to move spam to the Trash folder automatically, possibly using .procmailrc?

Thanks,

--James.

[prsjm3qf]

Just a thought....

I achieve this by setting up a filter at the mail client level.

Both Horde and Squirrelmail will do this for you invisibly and automatically.

Don't know about non-webmail setups.

[James Goode]

I didn't look closely at Squirrelmail, because I didn't see a solution immediately. I found this guide:

Click on Options
Select Message Filters
You can set "What to scan" to all messages or "Only unread" messages. I recommend setting it to "Only unread" messages.
Click new
Match: Header
Contains: X-Spam-Status: Yes
Move To: INBOX.Spam

You could also scan the subject line for "[POSSIBLE SPAM]"

click on submit

I can't find a message filters button, do I need a plugin?

[wyldfury]

Dovecot has the Sieve plugin (http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Sieve) for mail filtering. If you also need to allow users to upload their own sieve scripts then you could also look at Pigeonhole (http://pigeonhole.dovecot.org/).

[James Goode]

I found the message filter plugin, and enabled it with SquirrelMail's conf.pl. It should now move spamassassin-marked spam into my Trash folder.

I also have a calendar and fortunes at the top of the page! I will look again at Sieve later, it looks quite tricky to set up.

Thanks for your help,

--James.