~/.forward file

a7mlinux · 07-20-2009, 09:00 AM

should I put ~/.forward file to make procmail processing my incoming e-mails? I'm useing RHEL5
and I need to put all messages marked as spam to be stored in /home/user/mail/SPAM, is this form in /home/.procmailrc is right:

Code:

SPAM=$HOME/mail/SPAM       # all detected as spam messages are in SPAM

and how to open this with imap_open() function?

paulsm4 · 07-20-2009, 09:21 AM

Use ".forward" to forward your personal e-mails to a different address.

a7mlinux · 07-20-2009, 09:23 AM

Quote:

Use ".forward" to forward your personal e-mails to a different address.

ok, that's mean I don't need it to process my incoming e-mails, RIGHT?

paulsm4 · 07-20-2009, 12:12 PM

Hi, again -

Yes, that's exactly what it means. In general, ".forward" is completely optional.

However, spam handling is a separate issue. For example, you might need to configure each of:

~/.procmailrc
~/.forward
etc

Here's are links that might help:

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~watrous/procmail-spam.html
http://spamassassin.apache.org/

a7mlinux · 07-21-2009, 05:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paulsm4

Hi, again -

Yes, that's exactly what it means. In general, ".forward" is completely optional.

However, spam handling is a separate issue. For example, you might need to configure each of:

~/.procmailrc
~/.forward

I know how to handle spam, but how to fetch them using IMAP functions.
this is the function that handle INBOX:

Code:

$mbox = imap_open("{127.0.0.1:143}INBOX","%u","%password") or die(imap_last_error()." connection failure ");

so how to handle spam using this fuction