How to stop SPAM from being forwarded

[WK-Anthony]

Hi,

I've hit an annoying problem. We just developped an in-house alerting system which uses forwarders in order to keep a message on the server..

Now, we get messages ticketed as SPAM (by SpamAsassin level 4.0) forwarded as well.

Is there a way to stop this from happening?

[PWSowner]

I'm pretty sure if you turn on the spam box it won't be forwarded.

[WK-Anthony]

Hmmmm...SB is enabled (spam folders within Horde)

[webignition]

I'd just like to clarify a couple of things.

If you set up an email filter, mail will be parsed by SA and then delivered per the filter rules. I've noticed that, from having a filter piping mail to a PHP script, spam will still end up reaching the script.

However if you use a forwarder, mail will be properly checked and spam will get filtered out with only legitimate mail being forwarded on.

Perhaps it's just me, but that's the behaviour I've observed.

Just on the off-chance that you're using a filter and not a forwarder, make sure you switch to a forwarder instead.