Re: Spam storage on VMS Mail

From: Paul Sture (nospam_at_sture.homeip.net)
Date: 07/24/04 

Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 09:55:41 +0200

JF Mezei wrote:
> Is it possible, and if so, what is the best way to have 2 mailboxes per user ?
> (one for real mail, one for spam) ?
>
> For instance, if the SMTP gateway had SPAM filtering, it could send legitimate
> messages to the real mailbox (jdoe) and send any spam to (jdoe_spam).
>
> Then, the user could consulty his alternate mailbox to see if there are any
> false positives. (A job runing at night could them empty all <user>_spam mailboxes.

Not really what you are asking, but I have 2 VMS accounts for mail. My
normal login account plus the one in the From: field above.

I use the example mail program by Joe Meadows at

http://tinyurl.com/66cdb

to check the spam and postmaster accounts for new mail, only logging in
to those accounts when I see some. 

-- 
Paul Sture
OS X: "It's Unix, Jim, but not as we know it"

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