Spam stored in wrong quarantine folder

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Nov 5 15:21:20 GMT 2004


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Paul Houselander wrote:

>Hi
>
>Have found some unusual behaviour I just wanted to run by the list.
>
>I have 2 domains (abc.co.uk and xyz.com) whose mail accounts reside on
>the same server. Both domains are scanned for Spam, but only on
>incomming mail i.e. my Use Spamassasin ruleset looks like
>
>To: *@abc.co.uk yes
>To: *@xyz.com yes
>FromTo: default no
>
>I have a ruleset for quarantine as well
>
>FromTo: *@abc.co.uk     /quarantine/abc.co.uk
>FromTo: *@xyz.com       /quarantine/xyz.com
>
>and my Spam Actions ruleset looks like
>
>To: *@abc.co.uk         store forward spam at abc.co.uk
>To: *@xyz.com           store forward spam at xyz.com
>
>If user1 at abc.co.uk sends a message to user2 at xyz.com that gets tagged as
>spam it gets quarantined in /quarantine/abc.co.uk, I would have expected
>it to be quarantined in /quarantine/xyz.com
>
>
Why? The first quarantine rule that matches is
FromTo: *@abc.co.uk.....
so that is the rule that is used.

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