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10th October 2008
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Webmail and Spam

Spam filters are needed

Since it is necessary nowadays for almost every e-mail address of a spam filter einzusetzten, many manufacturers of e-mail clients have done so already.

But what is with webmail clients, such as used by me phlyMail ?

Problems with Spamassassin and Confixx

Now this is a practical example in PHP webmail client already installed an option to filter spam using external tool. The default setting here is by Spamassassin

  SpamAssassin <$ 1> $ 2 

called, but received by mail to retrieve leads to a flurry of error messages, because by default Confixx web servers, the $ HOME directory is not writable. These settings are for a simple Web hosting in most cases determined by the hoster and thus not be changed. So somehow had found her another way.

  spamassassin-p / var/www/web247/files/spam/user_prefs <$ 1> $ 2 

This change means that Spamassassin is now using the user_pref file itself can be configured. Of course, this must be the host of one of its global config have allowed ...

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