Read quarantined spam in mail cient?

[Craig Pratt]

What we do is tag the message subject with "[bulk]" using the MS "Spam
Subject Text" options. Then we use a global procmail rule to store the
spam messages in a folder in each user's ~/Mail/Bulk folder:

   ...
   MAILDIR=${HOME}/mail            #First check what your mail directory
is!
   ...

   :0:
   * ^Subject:.\[BULK\]
   Bulk

They can view these with IMAP and SquirrelMail when they want to sort
through the tailings.

You can easily write these into an single file as well. Just give a
full path for the mail folder.

Craig

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Craig Pratt
Strongbox Network Services Inc.
mailto:craig at strong-box.net

On Monday, March 17, 2003, at 08:44  AM, John Goggan wrote:
> A few months ago, I asked about being able to read the quarantined
> spam easily
> with a normal mail client (I do this after I make significant
> spam-catching
> changes to make sure I'm not identifying too much real mail as spam).
> At the
> time, only queue-based (df/qf) storage occurred -- so Julian did up
> the handy
> df2mbox -- which works well.
>
> I have some interest in storing them the new default way though -- as
> actual
> individual files with the header and message in one file.  Is there an
> easy
> way to concatenate these together into a client-readable (i.e. mbox
> format)
> version fairly easily?  I assume it should be fairly trivial, but just
> don't
> know how to do it myself, sorry.  If it is a big problem/difficulty, I
> guess I
> could just go back to the queue-file format and continue to use
> df2mbox.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  - John...


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