Which Folder Does Spamassassin Shunt Spam Into?

[Jeff]

A customer who is reluctant to post in the forums would like to know the answer to a few questions about having SpamAssassin divert suspected spam into a folder on the server. The SpamAssassin documentation is slim and none of the techs use this feature of SpamAssassin, so we are unable to answer the questions. Can someone here help?

1. What is the name given to the Spam folder?

2. What is the location of the Spam folder in the mail tree?

3. How can an email user access the Spam folder?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

[cprompt]

Spam goes into a folder called "spam" which found in the mail directory of the user's default account.
It is a current limitation of the Direct Admin set-up with SpamAssassin that ALL spam for all email addresses for all domains under that user account go into that one folder which is a shame because of course only the user account holder has access to view it. All your virtual email accounts do not have access to SPAM sent there. :(

The easiest way to access this folder is via an IMAP client such as Mozilla Thunderbird.

Incidentally the "spam" folder is actually a symbolic link to a hidden folder called
.spamassassin/spam which again can be found under the home directory of the user account (if you have ssh access which we dont! ) :)

[tonydi]

Yeah, found the location info out last week after much Googling, then one of the techs here told me that only the master account can access that folder via webmail.

Jeff....is there anyone at DA who we could petition to change this so that each account has access to their own spam (there's one for ya, people want to see their spam!)?

[Sullise]

Originally posted by Jeff@Jun 27 2005, 03:32 PM
A customer who is reluctant to post in the forums would like to know the answer to a few questions about having SpamAssassin divert suspected spam into a folder on the server. The SpamAssassin documentation is slim and none of the techs use this feature of SpamAssassin, so we are unable to answer the questions. Can someone here help?

1. What is the name given to the Spam folder?

2. What is the location of the Spam folder in the mail tree?

3. How can an email user access the Spam folder?

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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The folder name would be called "SPAM". It's stored under It will ONLY be visable via Webmail and ONLY to the primary email account.

To access it under Squrrelmail, log in as the primary email acct (this would be the one created with your DA login id). YOu only need to use teh login name for the primary (unlike other email boxes where you would log in as emailname@domain name, you would just use emailname).

Go to "Folders" at top menu, you'll see a list of folders that you can subscribe to, one of them will be "Spam" if you have SA turned on and set to put mail in that folder. (you can also subscribe to other email boxes folders here to, so you can actually check all your mailboxes from a single signon).

That's all there is to it. Hope that helps.

Sean

[cprompt]

Jeff....is there anyone at DA who we could petition to change this so that each account has access to their own spam (there's one for ya, people want to see their spam!)?
There are many users on the Direct Admin forum that are requesting this feature but for the moment the DA staff have not commited to implementing it.

[Jeff]

Thanks to all who responded.

I can see that the location that DirectAdmin chose for this mailbox represents a potential drain on disk space for customers who don't use the email account associated with their admin login.

[mharvey]

Originally posted by cprompt@Jun 27 2005, 04:21 PM
Incidentally the "spam" folder is actually a symbolic link to a hidden folder called
.spamassassin/spam which again can be found under the home directory of the user account (if you have ssh access which we dont! ) :)
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You can also access this hidden file using the DirectAdmin File Manager.