How to read SPAM in a POP3 box?

[SupermanInNY]

Hi All,

How do you get to read spam that is in the spambox, when you have a POP3 setup?

thanks,

-Alon.

 

[nobaloney]

Use squirrelmail, the IMAP web client included with DirectAdmin.

Jeff

 

[SupermanInNY]

Use squirrelmail, the IMAP web client included with DirectAdmin.

Jeff

I know about squirrlemail, but my question was specifically about POP3 and not IMAP4 option.

Here is what cPanel has:



Spam Box

This feature allows emails identified as spam by SpamAssassin to be delivered to a separate mail folder named "spam". If this folder is not regularly checked and emptied, it may cause your email or file system quotas to be exceeded, resulting in a failure to receive legitimate messages. You can easily use IMAP or Horde/IMP to check messages that are routed to this box. If you wish to use pop3 to check the spam box, just add "/spam" (without the quotes) to the end of your pop3 login. (Example: [email protected]/spam)


Has this been tried/tested with Dovecot?

I've sent this to John of DA and his response was:

It's almost possible with dovecot by adding another account with the "spam" name (eg /spam)..and setting the spam path to the .INBOX.spam folder as the main folder instead of one level up at the Maildir level.
However, ~/Maildir is added to the end, so imap/domain.com/user/Maildir/.INBOX.spam/Maildir/new would be used instead of imap/domain.com/user/Maildir/.INBOX.spam/new .. so as it sits, it's not quite able to with the current configuration.


John
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Perhaps is is something worth investigating and possible modifying?

-Alon.

 

[nobaloney]

I think what John is writing is that changes would have to be made to Dovecot in order for it to work.

I'm not going to make changes to Dovecot that's going to require it be repatched, checked, and reocmpiled every time Dovecot is updated. Do you want to take responsibility for being the Dovecot maintainer for DA ?

Seriously, it seems like a lot of responsibility to take on for something that would deliver the spam to the client's spambox, when the user who wants to read spam from a POP3 client can simply let SpamAssassin deliver it to the inbox and then filter it locally (using the desktop mail client) based on the (optionally) changed subject line.

Jeff

 

[SupermanInNY]

I think what John is writing is that changes would have to be made to Dovecot in order for it to work.

I'm not going to make changes to Dovecot that's going to require it be repatched, checked, and reocmpiled every time Dovecot is updated. Do you want to take responsibility for being the Dovecot maintainer for DA ?

Seriously, it seems like a lot of responsibility to take on for something that would deliver the spam to the client's spambox, when the user who wants to read spam from a POP3 client can simply let SpamAssassin deliver it to the inbox and then filter it locally (using the desktop mail client) based on the (optionally) changed subject line.

Jeff

Hey Jeff,

You get to hear no argument from me.
If dovecot dev team would have made an official change that would have included that logic, then that would be a non-issue.
DA maintanence let me spend a 1/10th of a second to think about it (NO!) ).

Courier I guess had a reason to include this logic.