Question What is the default SPAM folder

[onki]

Hi,

I am using Spamassasin on my Plesk server and I am unsure which folder is the default SPAM-folder.
In my mailbox there is a SPAM named folder as subfolder of the inbox and a folder with the same name is a root-subfolder.
The background is that Spamassasin tries to learn from my SPAM and therefore I need to know where to move my spam mails.

Is there any config file to change this folder in Plesk?

Best regards
Onki

 

[m3lezZ]

Hello,
SpamAssasin provides different options to handle spam:

1. Mark Spam in the subject line. For example adding ***SPAM*** to the subject
2. Delete Messages which reaches the spam-score
3. Move spam to the spam-folder

Spam training is performed on a daily basis while the Plesk daily task.

Normaly it's enough just to mark a spam-message in roundcube for example as spam, then the message will be moved to the spam-folder:


In your mail-client deppends this on the client. But at the ones which I tested (Thunderbird & Outlook) it will be moved to the sub-folder of the mailbox:


Note: All messages are automatically removed from the Spam folder after 30 days. Move all non-spam messages back to the Inbox folder after performing the Plesk daily task.

You can also define with with the sa-learn-utility which folder spam-assasin should use to learn spam:

1. Connect to the server with ssh
2. Place all existing spam messages for example into the spam folder of the [email protected] mailbox.
3. run the command below to generate the antispam database
   

   sa-learn --spam /var/qmail/mailnames/example.tld/yourmailbox/Maildir/.Spam/cur/

4. Copy the generated files from the step 3. from /root/.spamassassin/ to the .spamassassin folder of the required mailbox
   

   cp /root/.spamassassin/* /var/qmail/mailnames/example.tld/yourmailbox/.spamassassin/

5. Set the correct ownership for the copied files by executing the command below:
   

   chown -R popuser:popuser /var/qmail/mailnames/example.tld/yourmailbox/.spamassassin/*

For more information have at the spamassasin-documentation here.