>>>>> On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 09:41:12 -0500, >>>>> Phil Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (ph) writes:
ph> Not all users want, or do anything with, a separate spam folder. We've been experimenting with this very approach this semester. That is: between the gateway MTA and the Cyrus server, mail gets processed by SpamAssassin and is "tagged" appropriately. If folks wish it, they can then use Sieve to save spam into a JunkMail folder. We've then got a weekly cron job (probably could use Cyrus events) to perform the following: ipurge -f -s -d 60 "user.*.JunkMail" So far we haven't made a big deal about this, but have set up a number of folks. Overall, I think it is safe to say the response has been very positive. While I imagine some folks do forget to check their JunkMail folder, based upon some of the comments I've heard so far, it would seem that a fair number don't. The other day I was about to get agitated because a user forwarded a bunch of spam (with full headers) and I thought they might do that for all the mail in their JunkMail folder. Turns out they were either messages that SpamAssassin didn't tag, or the score was too low. Upon further research I learned that this individual does indeed check the JunkMail folder on about a weekly basis. To be honest, no system is going to be perfect. That's just fact of life, especially with such tenacious foes to contend with. While I imagine some would enjoy the ability to customize some of this tagging behavior, and I do plan on somewhat following developments along those lines, based upon what we've observed so far, I strongly suspect very, very few would opt to immediately reject the mail instead of utilizing the JunkMail folder. At least in an EDU environment, folks get really touchy when it comes to systematically blocking things. ;-) Anyway, that's my contribution. -- Amos
