about usermin webmail

[Mohammed Shahidul Islam]

Hi Dear
I am using usermin webmail in Redhat linux version 9. My email user always get many spam and unwanted mail in their mail inbox. Now i want to filter spam and unwanted mail. please help me to do that.

Shahid
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[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

spamassassin has cut my email spam 99% or more.

You should consider updating the OS at some point, but spamassassin and its dependencies which is mostly a bunch of php componenets will do the job.

Here is my /etc/procmailrc configuration.

DROPPRIVS=yes

:0fw
| /usr/bin/spamc

MAILDIR=$HOME/mail

:0:
* ^X-Spam-Status: Yes
spam


This configuration puts all spam in a subdirectory of the home directory for each user. I use a cron script to clear out the spam once a week.

SEP

[Mohammed Shahidul Islam]

I am thankful to you. Please clarify me step by step. I need more help. If you have any document about usermin please give me.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom again Shahid,

Sorry I did not get back to you sooner.

My solution works for all mail, not just usermin mail. It shuns the spam to a subirectory of all users called spam.

No changes need be made to your mail system, but you might want to make sure your users can access and delete their spam or create a cron job to do it for them.

You download spamassassin from the link below. I'm having connection problems.

Try http://rpmfind.net
Search for spamassassin redhat 9




Open a terminal session to the directory you downloaded it to.

As I recall spamassassin may be on your original Red Hat disks

rpm -ivh spamassassin.....rpm

Use the real name.

spamassassin requires php. If you don't have it installed you will need your original RH 9 install cd's or the rpms from them.

Once installed use my first post to set up your procmailrc file.

chkconfig spamassassin on
service spamassassin start

Finding spamassassin is half the battle.

Post again if you require more help.

SEP