Alejandro Kurchis wrote: > Hi Zamri, > > I've read your response about a plugin filter for spam mails, using > Squirrelmail as the user interface. > > You recomended to me using PROCMAIL, and I see many people use it...but can > you tell me if just procmail is necessary to put the spam mails into a given > folder ??? Or do I have to install more packages ?? > > I have sendmail + uw-imapd + clamav + spamassassin + spamass-milter
I think you might want to go do some of your own research. Briefly, filtering can happen in two places, at two distinct times: at the time of delivery by the delivery agent, or at the time you read your messages by the mail client. The latter is inherently slower and thus less desirable, and is also limited in that the filtering will not take place if you read your mail with a different client, unless it has the same kind of filtering in place. The only real advantage of this option is that you don't have to know how to or be able to install any special software on your mail server. Just enable the "filters" plugin that comes with SquirrelMail, and that's it (beside defining your personal filtering rules). The former is by far the better option, but it requires you know how to and have enough access to install some kind of filtering-capable mail delivery agent on your mail server, the most popular of which are procmail and courier-maildrop; Sieve is Cyrus' filtering language if you use their IMAP server. There are SquirrelMail front-end plugins for all of these, but again, they only serve as an interface for editing your filtering rules in those server-side applications. Sounds like you could install procmail, but if this is daunting to you, the SquirrelMail filters plugin might be the easiest solution for now. - Paul ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
