Problem with spam folders

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I'm running DA with Spamassassin enabled, but I'm having problems directing the spam mails somewhere where I can access them via Squirrelmail. At least, all the spam and junk folders I can subscribe there are empty, and switching between the "catch-all" spam folder and "the appropriate user's" spam folder in DA doesn't change that.

Investigating the actual folders brought the following info to light. Exim stores my actual mail here:
/home/ACCOUNT/imap/MYSITE.com/MAILUSER/Maildir

...whereas the actual spam is here, where Squirrelmail cannot access it:
/home/ACCOUNT/Maildir/.INBOX.spam

Any idea how this can be fixed? I've also noticed these here:
/home/ACCOUNT/.spamassassin/[email protected]
/home/ACCOUNT/imap/MYSITE.com/MAILUSER/mail/spam

The second path is a virtual link leading to the first path. Maybe, if I redirect it to .INBOX.spam above?! But of course, in an ideal world it should be possible to configure this in a way that the paths are set up correctly, without having to repair each of them by hand.

Thanks in advance!
 
zEitEr said:
/home/ACCOUNT/Maildir/.INBOX.spam is accessed in webmail with your login and password for directadmin.
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Confirmed, thank you.

Is there a way I can make the spam available for viewing when I log into an actual email account?
 
Well and like to view spam AND legit emails with the same login. The way it's now, I'd have to login with my email credentials to view the legit mail, and the logout and in again with the directadmin login to see the spam.
 
Make SpamAssassin to store SPAM in an appropriate user's spam folder.
Why do you think, it does not work for you?
 
zEitEr said:
Make SpamAssassin to store SPAM in an appropriate user's spam folder.
Why do you think, it does not work for you?
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Well, I just can't find the spam. ;) This here must be the catch-all:

/home/ACCOUNT/Maildir/.INBOX.spam

But for the life of me I can't find the directory that serves as the "appropriate user's spam folder".
 
EDIT: Or maybe I can. I guess the actual problem is, that I have a lot of different addresses forwarding to a main account, and that main account seems to get very little spam, while the spam is now distributed across those various forwarding addresses. :eek:

So I guess I'll have to revert this to the catch-all, and then find a way how to link it to my main mail account.
 
Sorry for all the posts, but it seems like I cannot edit previous posts.

Under Cpanel on the old server, I would get all spam into the spam folder that I could conveniently access from my main mail account.

Under DA I have two options:
- Either, the spam is distributed between all emails that are forwarded to my main email, or
- the spam is "only" distributed to one separate folder per domain (=account).

Both are very inconvenient. Does anyone know how I can configure spamassassin so that all of "my" spam (from various domains) ends up in a single folder?
 
Thanks - but what I actually need, is a way to combine the spam from multiple domains in one account. Out of the box, as it seems, this isn't possible.
 
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