in reply to Re: Routing SPAM emails to a junk folder
in thread Routing SPAM emails to a junk folder

That's fine for the clients - but the problem is more that SPAM is currently accouting for upwards to 25% of the used space in homedirs on the mailserver. Also, the clients can have to download hundreds of spammy messages in a day, bogging the internet connection and delaying the emails they want. Thus, I want to drop it into an IMAP spam folder (which can be accessed in the webmail) and segregate the spammy messages. If somebody is on vacation, their spam will be cleared after a week rather than building up.

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Re: For server-side cleanup
by CountZero (Bishop) on Jul 20, 2004 at 21:08 UTC
    Just a wild thought: give every user two e-mail addresses: the real one is "user@my.email.server" and the one for the spam is "spam.user@my.email.server".

    If you make the spam-box only available through webmail, your users do not have to download through all the spam-messages and you can easily delete these message after a reasonable expiry-period.

    CountZero

    "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler." - Conway's Law

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