Spam Filter "Leaks" Sometimes

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#1 Sat, 05/24/2014 - 09:10
jbrice

Spam Filter "Leaks" Sometimes

I have recently set up a Virtualmin + Ubuntu 12.04 server for a small professional operation with a relatively light loading of web access and email traffic.

Spam processing is set up so that identified spam goes is sent to a specific spam folder. However just once in a while small bursts of spam (typically 3 - 5 items) arrive in the in the primary inbox rather than the spam folder, even though positively marked with a high score as being spam.

Email on the server is otherwise working well and mostly giving a good degree of protection from spam thanks to standard Greymail and SpamAssassin setup. The only characteristic of the mis-directed spam that I can see is that the spam items have arrived within a few seconds of each other.

Any suggestions appreciated that might help me to clear up this issue.

TIA

Sun, 05/25/2014 - 12:52
inteq

Users have WebMail access? Maybe some of your users made some custom rules for incoming email?

Sun, 05/25/2014 - 13:22 (Reply to #2)
jbrice

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm the only site user.

One of the things I noticed is that it was only affecting the domain where I had used the "Write to mail file under home directory" option to direct spam to a folder other than the default (~/Maildir/.spam/). So maybe something related to this post: http://www.virtualmin.com/node/17146?

Also noticed that the default spam mailbox domain was not stable and had changed to ~/Maildir/.Junk/ without me being aware that I had done anything to cause that.

I think its fixed now. I found the built-in script to set the spam folder destination across all servers, and applied it using the folder to my choice. Now all spam is reliably going into that folder.

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