Move junk mail to a folder instead of deleting

With SpamAssassin turned on, the default spam strategy options let you either leave junk mail in your inbox (accept), or delete it completely (discard).

I hate having my mail deleted for me. I rarely have false positives, but I'd rather see the junk mail I'm getting to be able to make sure.

These changes allow you to change the behavior to either:

• Leave it in your inbox
• Move it to the Junk folder

This guide also assumes that your clients are using IMAP to access their mail, or at least have access to a web client that is using IMAP, so they can see the Junk folder. It also assumes that you are using Maildirs.


First change the behavior of spamassassin. Edit /root/ispconfig/isp/conf/spamassassin.rc.master.
Find the line:

PHP:

{SPAM_COMMENT}/dev/null

Change it to:

PHP:

{SPAM_COMMENT}.Junk/

Now make sure that the Junk folders are created automatically. We can't move mail to a folder that doesn't exist. Edit /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_procmail.lib.php.
Find the line (around 107) that reads:

PHP:

if(!is_dir($web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir")) $mod->log->caselog("maildirmake ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", "maildirmake ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", __LINE__);

Below it add:

PHP:

# Create Junk, Send, Trash folders
         if(!is_dir($web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir/.Junk")) $mod->log->caselog("maildirmake -f Junk ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", "maildirmake -f Junk ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", __LINE__);
        if(!is_dir($web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir/.Sent")) $mod->log->caselog("maildirmake -f Sent ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", "maildirmake -f Send ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", __LINE__);
        if(!is_dir($web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir/.Trash")) $mod->log->caselog("maildirmake -f Trash ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", "maildirmake -f Trash ".$web_path."/user/".$user_username."/Maildir &> /dev/null", __LINE__);


(The forums are doing some weird wrapping on that code. The 3 if statements should be on 1 line each.)

Edit /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/isp_manager/lib/lang/en.lng
Find the lines:

PHP:

$wb["accept"] = 'accept';
$wb["discard"] = 'discard';

Change them to:

PHP:

$wb["accept"] = 'Leave in Inbox';
$wb["discard"] = 'Move to Junk';

Edit /home/admispconfig/ispconfig/web/mailuser/lib/lang/en.lng
Find the lines:

PHP:

$wb["txt_accept"] = "accept";
$wb["txt_discard"] = "discard";


Change them to:

PHP:

$wb["txt_accept"] = "Leave in Inbox";
$wb["txt_discard"] = "Move to Junk";


Now make a small change to in ISPConfig to make it refresh all your users. It should automatically create Junk, Sent and Trash folders for everyone. When then change their spam settings, they will now see the options "Leave in Inbox" and "Move to Junk" instead of accept and discard.

 

That is exaclty what i looking for thanks

Any idea how to add this in listbox and extend default configuration?
accept
discard
move to junk ?

 

They do when you copy and paste them into a text editor - but they do wrap because they are very long.

Very useful mod, thanks. Exactly what I was alluding to in my original thread.

 

Re Not Working

Hello, I have followed Step By Step

But i still have no luck with moving spam to junk folder, Even "Junk" folder is not created on webmail,

in Admin page i do see , it is changed from Accpect lo leaveg in inbox and move to junk , but when i make it move junk that spam message jst get deleted nothing comes in Junk folder even if i create Junk folder by my self

what could be worng ?

I really like the idea , and i would like it to work i'm using 2.18 of ispconfig and i just followed setting that was put by ispconfig site to install the ispconfig

thanks

 

Works like a charm (ISPConfig 2.2.18, squirreloutlook 1.4.8)! Had to subscribe new folders in squirreloutlook user interface after login and setup them (deleted mails -> trash, sent mails -> sent).

Big thanks!

 

JUNK Folder No Luck

Thanks for reply ,

I do see sent, trash, inbox, and i see its in user infer.. but there is no option for junk folder,

1) when i make new email account, Junk folder is not created

2) when i choice option to move spam to junk folder, rather then redirect mail to junk it just delete it message, (as it should do according to ISP setup, either mail in inbox or delete it )

Is there something wrong in my setup , or i'm missing something
thanks

Raman

 

They don't appear on webmail at the beginning (i'm using sqiuirrel). Check via shell login what's inside user's Maildir.

I'm missing someting? There should be choice to leave in inbox or move to junk - not move/redirect.

Also check twice steps described in posts above and make edited files backup first

 

Auto Remove Junk Older than 14 Days

I have implemented the move spam to Junk, and ran into a problem :
Users getting their mail with pop3 don't see all the spam in .Junk Folder.
The size of the junk folder will soon exeed the users disk quota.
So i found a little script on the net, and modified it a bit for use with ISPConfig.
It will remove Messages older than 14 days from users .Junk folder.
I run it daily via cron.

cat /etc/cron.daily/purge.junk

Code:

#!/bin/sh

HOURS=$((2 * 24 * 7))

for domain in /var/www/*
do
        if [ -d "$domain"/user ]
                then
                        cd $domain/user
                        for user in *
                        do
                                if [ -d "$user/Maildir/.Junk" ]
                                then
                                        tmpwatch -m $HOURS $user/Maildir/.Junk/{cur,new}
                                fi
                        done
                        cd /var/www
        fi
done

Edit(11 Jan 2008):

You might want to add :
/etc/init.d/dovecot restart
to the script, to make dovecot rebuild message indexes.



/Mark

 

Hello,

unfortunately there are no tmpwatch rpm for SuSe Linux and tmpwatch sources are hard to find.

My way for SuSe 10.1 is to replace

Code:

tmpwatch -m $HOURS $user/Maildir/.Junk/{cur,new}

with

Code:

find $user/Maildir/.Spam/cur -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
find $user/Maildir/.Spam/new -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;

The "+30" in code mean 30 days. So you don´t need variable HOURS.

Greets from Germany
Grafzahl

 

To install tmpwatch from source :

Code:

cd /usr/src
wget http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/tmpwatch/src/tmpwatch-2.9.0.tar.gz
tar xvzf tmpwatch-2.9.0.tar.gz
cd tmpwatch-2.9.0
make
make install

This will install tmpwatch with Prefix /usr/local

/Mark

 

Has anyone tried this with UebiMiau?

I've followed the steps myself. If I list the contents of the folder via the shell I can see .Junk, however I cannot see it while logged into UebiMiau.

 

On Debian tmpreaper should be used instead of tmpwatch since tmpreaper is in the repositories (attempting to apt-get tmpwatch will warn and throw, mentioning tmpreaper)...

Apart from that this appears to work GREAT... and is a WAY simpler solution to the problem than I've been seeing elsewhere. Spam moved to .Junk, purging of .Junk - server side so no hassles regardless of client software.

Plugs a functionality hole as I was thinking on using roundcube - but the lack of message filtering kept sending me back to SquirrelMail.

 

First off I want to say that this posting is amazing! ... With that said I am using Squirrel-Outlook and am unable to figure out how to auto-subscribe .Junk folder. Does anyone have a good solution for this?

 

Addendum

In walking a buddy through setting this up on his server (I pointed him here, he got lost), we had real issues getting the purge script to run despite being (I thought) the same setup (Debian Etch perfect with ISPConfig as per this site) as my own server.

The script was throwing couldn't find directory errors and wouldn't work until I filled out the directory values the whole way.

So for debian etch, that should read (this is set to 3 days, the admin account for my buddies server sees 1500 spam a day):

Code:

#!/bin/sh

hours=$((24*3))

for domain in /var/www/*
do
  if [ -d "$domain"/user ]
  then
    for user in *
    do
      if [ -d "$domain/user/$user/Maildir/.Junk" ]
      then
        # change tmpreaper to tmpwatch for some distros
        tmpreaper -m $hours $domain/user/$user/Maildir/.Junk/{cur,new}
      fi
    done
  fi
done

Oh, and a little 'tip' for nubes that isn't mentioned here (came up while instructing my buddy, who's greener than moldy cheese) - chmod 775 this purge.junk file or cron won't execute it. With *nix heads this is one of those 'assumed' things that really should be mentioned so people new to bash and *nix have a clue.

I switched my own server to this file to verify it worked there too. No difference either way between my previous and this one - though I'm going with this one since it seems to work better across multiple distros (and doesn't burn time executing chdir)

 

That's really helpful, but I'd like to offer three options:

1. Allow it into the mailbox
2. Move it to the junk folder
3. Delete it immediately

Would this be easy to add as an option?

 

It works with the tutorial on Howtoforge.com (http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-add-a-move-to-spam-option-to-your-ispconfig-installation).
BUT it seems to work on for account that is admin with ISPConfig 2.2.25, roundcubemail and Hardy heron Ubuntu Gnu/Linux server.
I've tried everything i could : no way !
In fact, for the account that is selected as "admin" of a domain, spam go all in the Junk forlder.
But for the other mail accounts of this same domain, spam go in the receive box as before.
Of course, i've selected the "move" option in the ispconfig panel ... but no luck ...

UPDATE :
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ',' in /root/ispconfig/scripts/lib/classes/ispconfig_procmail.lib.php on line 419

UPDATE 2 :
Several mails go now in my server user account...

"You have new mail.
$ mail
Mail version 8.1.2 01/15/2001. Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/olivier": 34 messages 34 new ..."

 

Did you use the patch with users created before patching? Did you create mailboxes afterwards and check these? It seems to me, that the users you select the new "move" option on, don't have a junk folder. That is the patch on the ispconfig_procmail.lib.php, to create all needed folders for future users. If you have users before who have NO junk folder, it doesn't get created out of the blue. I would advide to set roundcube to create those folders on first connection per default (I think Hans already set the roundcube package up that way) and log into that users via RC to create those missing boxes.
Another possibility would be to create them by hand but watch your permissions closely then!

 

Thanx Grey !
But i've found a simpler solution by just editing the spamassassin.rc file for my user and telling procmail to not put the spam to /dev/null but to .Junk/ folder.
That's very simple but it works like a charm ... and this is what i was looking for !
Thanx for all !

 

That, too, only works if and only IF a Junk folder exists, what is - without the modifications of my howto - not the case if you create a new user out of the box. That user needs to login first with Roundcube or an IMAP Client to create those folders, if you don't do that for him. If that folder doesn't exist, that will result in further problems.

With that solution in this thread you don't have to edit that much files, but it's still important, that the folders (.Junk, .Trash) exist.

 

Ok !
Thanx again anyway !