Re: [courier-users] Mail Filters

On 7 Jan 2008 16:38, cyclops@titanshadow.com wrote:
> > The webmail server that comes with courier, sqwebmail, will allow users
> > to create their own filtering rules. See if that does what you want.
>
> Thank you for your quick responce. I have thought about that but I was
> really hoping to use the ~/.mailfilter file for it. However, that doesn't
> seem to want to work.

The sqwebmail interface can create and manage that
~/.mailfilter file.

> Do I have to use the sqmail interface to create filters and have them work?

You can use any self-made method to manage ~/.mailfilter
files but keep in mind that if you ever also engage
sqwebmail then they need to be in a fairly strict format
for sqwebmail to also use.

> I don't really want to have a webmail inteface running as I don't even have
> apache installed on the server.

You can use any shell based language to manipulate
~/.mailfilter files according to the maildrop rules here...

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

One hint is that the global /etc/courier/maildroprc, if
it exists, is looked up first before the individual users
~/.mailfilter so if you want to do some unique per user
filtering before some generic rules in maildroprc then
something like this could be useful at the beginning of
/etc/courier/maildroprc...

`test -f $HOME/.prefilter`
if (!$RETURNCODE)
{
include $HOME/.prefilter
}
... the rest of maildroprc

Then you have the chance of engaging some unique per user
condition, with or without the follow on sitewide filtering
in maildroprc, and then also offer a fallthru ~/.mailfilter
condition that could be created manually by the end user
(if they have access to sqwebmail to create their own rules).

--markc

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