Spam Action "Forward" doesn't work

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Sep 4 16:47:49 IST 2003


At 16:10 04/09/2003, you wrote:
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>Hi,
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>On Thursday 04 September 2003 6:28 am, Zdenek Fajfr wrote:
> > Well, the thing is that I don't want to deliver spam to users any more; I
> > just want to be able to check the spam occasionally for false positives. So
> > thought I could pick up the spam, deliver it to one common e-mail address
> > (me) passing it through a filtering rule in Outlook to separate it from
> > ordinary mail and storing it in folder called 'SPAM'.
> >
> > I wonder way the log records say
> >
> > Sep  3 14:46:52 ns MailScanner[18921]: Spam Actions: message h83CkgIb019316
> > actions are bounce,store,forward,postmaster at krnap.cz
> >
> > !?!?!?
> >
> > One would expect there ....forward postmaster at krnap.cz (e.g. without the
> > comma) or forward(postmaster at krnap.cz) or maybe forward
> > "postmaster at krnap.cz".
> > I tried to enclose the email address in (double) quotes - no success
> > either.
> >
> > I'm running out of ideas
>
>I turned on forwarding for SPAM to check if it was working here, and I have
>had SPAM for other users forwarded to me. The only thing I did was to add the
>keyword forward and my email address to the end of the SPAM actions list
>which already contained attachment deliver.

>The log entry "bounce,store,forward,postmaster at krnap.cz" is correct,
>there's nothing wrong with that.

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