Another call for improvements

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Jun 1 08:47:06 IST 2006


On 31 May 2006, at 21:33, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:
>>> Julian Field wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>> Hold on... so spam isn't archived by the "archive mail"  
>>>>> function? I thought it was by design that "archive mail" went  
>>>>> before everything else, and so spam gets archived with it. Is  
>>>>> it different now?
>>>> It gets archived into a "spam" subdirectory. Look.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so to recap, if I have, for example:
>>>
>>> Archive Mail = %rules-dir%/archive.rules
>>>
>>> archive.rules:
>>>
>>> FromOrTo:   default   no
>>> From:   alex at nkpanama.com   /home/backup/mail/outgoing/alex
>>> To:   alex at nkpanama.com   /home/backup/mail/incoming/alex
>>>
>>> Spam Actions = attachment deliver header "X-Spam-Status: yes"
>>> High Scoring Spam Actions = delete # no need to set header "X- 
>>> Spam-Status: yes"
>>> Non Spam Actions = deliver header "X-Spam-Status: no"
>>>
>>> Where would the spam go? To the quarantine in a spam folder?
>> Should do, yes.
>>
> What if I *don't* want to archive spam? Would I have to set up a  
> cron job to delete it?

Yes.

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