Archive Filter

[Glenn Steen]

On 08/02/06, Rodney Green <rgreen at trayerproducts.com> wrote:
> >
> > I assume you use the Archive feature of MailScanner.... Apart from
> > dropping as much as possible (with the usual caveats about rbls in the
> > MTA etc) at the MTA, letting MS do anything more before archiving the
> > mail would defeat the purpose of the feature (saving as pristine a
> > copy as possible).
> > Instead of using that feature you might instead "archive" by doing a
> > forward to an "archive recipient" in the Non Spam Actions, but then
> > you'd get them after MS had altered them.... Kind of a case of either
> > having the cake or eating it (if there is such a saying in
> > English-speaking countries:-).
> >
>
> Thanks Glenn. I am using the MS archive feature. I'd like to be able to
> continue archiving mail into individual user mbox files but I'd also
> like to eliminate all of the spam that is being stored in those files
> taking up unnecessary space on the drive. It would be nice if one could
> use the same archiving feature for non spam mail.
>
Ok. Unfortunately, that's not really possible within MS as is now,
AFAICS (I also distinctly remember Jules commenting on this before....
And giving the same answer... Check the ML archives @gmane, my memory
has been known to have been ... rusted.... before:). What you could do
is keep track of the spams/viruses (in the quarantine, perhaps) and
script up something that would "clean the archive, after the fact"...
Not really hard, but not really easy either...

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