Spam Assasin

[ClarkK]

On August 18th the Head Guru wrote:

 

With the recent upgrades to cPanel, the dev team has been paying more attention to the users of spam assasin.

 

In the previous build you would need to use a imap client to get to your spambox.

Well not anymore.

 

You can create a "new" e-mail account that has precisley the same settings as your e-mail account, but add:

 

"/spam" to the end of the e-mail account username.

 

This will retrieve only your SPAMBOX mail.

 

In order for this to be useful, you will want to set up your e-mail client to deliver this SPAMBOX mail to a special folder (perhaps called spam?) automatically.

 

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If I understand correctly, this will forward only the spam sent to myname@****.

 

If you want to review locally all spam sent to **** without using horde etc, could you activate Spam Assassin and set up a filter in the following fashion:

 

SpamAssassin Spam Header that begins with Yes AND then in the destination box send it to a email address such as spam@****.

 

Futher, wouldn't you NOT activate the spam box? It would appear to me that if you did, you would get a copy of the message in the spambox. True or false?

 

My intent is to download this box occasionaly and make sure no valid email was sent to other recipients at **** without having to connect with horde etc.

(BTW, can you access the spambox, if you are using it, with SquirrelMail?)

 

 

 

Regards,

Clark

[shakes]

i'm wondering the same thing but can't find an answer on the forums ... do i have to create a 'spam account' for every e-mail account I want spambox to forward spam for? or does one /spam account take care of it all?

 

jake

[ScooterB]

OK, so I finally figured out what works for me.

 

Requirements:

1) Wanted Spam Assassin to watch over all my email accounts.

2) Wanted to move all those emails marked as spam to another email account for later retrieval and review.

3) Didn't want each email account to have their own Spam box.

 

 

In cPanel:

1) Created an email account "Spam@****"

2) Created a filter "SpamAssassin Spam Header", "begins with", and then enter "Yes" in the box. Destination "Spam@****".

3) Enable Spam Assassin.

4) Do not enable Spam Box.

 

 

In my Outlook:

1) Created an account to retrieve emails from "Spam@****".

2) Created a folder called "THC_Spam".

3) Created a filter to move all emails beginning with the string "***SPAM***" in the subject to the above named folder.

 

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[MikeJ]

Excellent information, and thanks for sharing it. Thumbs Up

 

I'm sure others will benefit from it.

Edited March 15, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ