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Subject: Re: [sqwebmail] mail filtering issue
From: Kurt Bigler <kkb () breathhost ! net>
Date: 2005-05-12 23:52:29
Message-ID: BEA93A4D.E0D2%kkb () breathhost ! net
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on 5/12/05 7:30 AM, Trey Nolen <tnolen@internetpro.net> wrote:
> We've got a weird issue going on and I think it is tied to the Sqwebmail
> Maildrop filtering rules. I have had a few people who have mail filtering
> turned on get 10's of thousands of messages overnight. They are all the same
> message, and *SHOULD* be matching one of the rules (although the rule is not
> taking effect). When spam detection is turned off in Qmailadmin (thereby
> stopping Maildrop), they messages stop. We are using Qmailadmin 1.2.3 with
> Vpopmail 5.4.10. Enabling spam detection puts the following line in our
> .qmail files:
> |preline /usr/local/bin/maildrop /etc/mailfilter
>
>
> Our /etc/mailfilter file is:
> VHOME=`/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d $EXT@$HOST`
> VPOP="| /home/vpopmail/bin/vdelivermail '' bounce-no-mailbox"
>
> exception {
> include $VHOME/.mailfilter
> }
>
> exception {
> to "$VHOME/Maildir/."
> }
>
> to "$VPOP"
>
>
> We are using Spamassassin to tag messages with *****SPAM***** on the subject
> line and are instructing users to use Sqwebmail to generate rules to
> automatically move those to a Junk folder or delete the messages. To
> delete the messages, we have users forward them to a special email address
> which goes to null.
> The rule being generated by Sqwebmail and put in the .mailfilter file
> follows:
>
> #MFMAILDROP=2
> #
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE. This is an automatically generated filter.
>
> FROM='user@mail'
> import SENDER
> if ($SENDER eq "")
> {
> SENDER=$FROM
> }
>
> ##Op:contains
> ##Header:From
> ##Value:lqarjvgwdk@3dmania.it
> ##Folder:!blackhole@internetpro.net
> ##From:
> ##PlainString
> ##Name:spam2
>
>
> if ((/^From:.*lqarjvgwdk\@3dmania\.it/))
> {
> to "| $SENDMAIL -f " '"$SENDER"' " blackhole@internetpro.net"
> }
>
> ##Op:startswith
> ##Header:subject
> ##Value:*****SPAM*****
> ##Folder:!blackhole@internetpro.net
> ##From:
> ##PlainString
> ##Name:spam
>
>
> if ((/^subject: *\*\*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*\*\*/))
> {
> to "| $SENDMAIL -f " '"$SENDER"' " blackhole@internetpro.net"
> }
>
> to "$VHOME/Maildir/."
>
>
>
>
>
> Most of the time, these rules seem to work OK, but there have been a few
> instances where the problem mentioned above happens. It often results in
> delivery of 1 to 4 GB of mail. As I stated before, turning off the mail
> filter seems to stop it, so I was wondering if there is any way that the
> above rules could somehow be perpetuating the delivery of certain emails.
> The emails that are being repeatedly delivered are tagged with
> *****SPAM***** in the subject (and the subject STARTS WITH that tag), so
> these messages should be getting forwarded to blackhole@internetpro.net.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Trey Nolen
>
>
>
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