Email filtering... Is it possible?

[Daniel15]

Hi everyone,
I was wondering whether it's possible to do email filtering on my Plesk server. By filtering, I mean automatically moving emails into certain directories depending on its sender or subject. For example, I have two folders inside the INBOX of my personal email account: "MySpace" and "forum". Is it possible to automatically sort messages from *@myspace.com into the "MySpace" folder, and messages from eg. forum-[at]-daniel15.com into the "forum" folder?

I'm using Plesk 8.2 on Debian Etch, and do not mind installing additional software to handle this (as long as it does not break Plesk).

Thanks

 

[Daniel15]

So, this is not possible?
Any ideas guys?

 

[lpittman]

Check out maildrop, I use it to filter emails with X-Spam-Status as Yes to a Spam folder...

http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/

 

[garan]

If you've got webmail then you'll already have Horde Ingo (Email Rule Filter Manager) installed. It is possible to get this to output a procmail file that you then tell qmail to use for that user via a .qmail file.

It is possible to get it running under Plesk but isn't straightforward (you will need advanced Linux sysadmin skills).

Here's a starter:

http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=41825&highlight=ingo+procmail

 

[atomicturtle]

Ive got maildrop rpms in my archive, then you modify the .qmail like so:

| true
|/usr/bin/maildrop .mailfilter

and an example .mailfilter that moves messages with "*****SPAM*****" in the subject line to the SPAM folder:

if ( /^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*/ )
{
to ./Maildir/.Spam/
}

 

[thewolf]

Originally posted by atomicturtle
Ive got maildrop rpms in my archive, then you modify the .qmail like so:

| true
|/usr/bin/maildrop .mailfilter

and an example .mailfilter that moves messages with "*****SPAM*****" in the subject line to the SPAM folder:

if ( /^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*/ )
{
to ./Maildir/.Spam/
}

Hi Scott,

Do you have more detailed info about the above setup?

In your opinion, is that the best/recommended way to achieve a quarantine folder for spam messages with Plesk?

Thanks.

 

[atomicturtle]

Im not sure how much more detailed I can make that

Theres more than one way to do it, for example I know that qmail-scanner has some built in logic to do it automatically. The example above is using maildrop, which is a procmail-ish type filter for qmail.

 

[thewolf]

Thanks for the reply.

I'll experiment with it.

I wonder why SWsoft doesn't include a spam quarantine feature by default in Plesk.

 

[tsheppard]

Ive got maildrop rpms in my archive, then you modify the .qmail like so:

| true
|/usr/bin/maildrop .mailfilter

and an example .mailfilter that moves messages with "*****SPAM*****" in the subject line to the SPAM folder:

if ( /^Subject:.*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*/ )
{
to ./Maildir/.Spam/
}

This might be a good solution for me if someone could enlighten me further on the code inside the .mailfilter file.

If I wanted to pipe a certain To: address, to a specific php script for bounce processing, how would I set that up?

For instance, my application sends out messages via smtp with SwiftMailer with the return-path: [email protected] so that bounces can be processed via the username in the return-path and a php script.

Anyone that can help me out with this would have my deep appreciation

Thanks

Tai