Redirect junk mails

grob115 · 09-09-2011, 01:02 PM

Hi, I routinely get a load of e-mails in my Outlook via POP3 daily from "Mail Delivery System" subject "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender". I normally delete them without looking at them.

However, is there a way to move them into a different folder for mass prune on say a monthly basis? This would actually work out better because I can let them pile up in one area not interrupting my other important e-mails, and do analysis to see which person is causing the most of these alert e-mails generated.

repo · 09-09-2011, 01:06 PM

You could use filtering in outlook to copy them to the folder you specify.
Don't know if outlook supports this though.
If you use linux to pop the mail, take a look at procmail.

Kind regards

grob115 · 09-09-2011, 03:13 PM

Thanks. However, I want to leave them on the server end rather than downloading into Outlook and ultimately increasing the size of my Outlook's PST file.

I use Dovecot and Postfix. Is there anything we can do with these two programs to filter out the mails I don't want?

repo · 09-09-2011, 03:21 PM

You can use procmail
http://www.symantec.com/connect/arti...cmail-part-one

Kind regards