Re: [courier-users] How to correctly drop messages in .mailfilter

[Joe L. <jo...@la...>]

On Mon, 22 Dec 2003, Mirko Zeibig wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 09:18:39PM -0500, Eric Livingston wrote:
> > Simple question, but one I can't seem to find a direct answer to:
> >
> > How do you send a message into the abyss using .mailfilter rules? I use
> > SpamAssassin, and would like to auto-delete messages with scores over a
> > certain threshold.
> >
> > Is "to /dev/null" the best bet, or is there some explicit action? I've
> > noticed that some other mail processors have "drop" actions that explicitly
> > kill a message - does maildrop?
>
> Hello Eric,
>
> I struggled with this as well a while ago, sending mails to /dev/null will not
> work. Instead I have sth. like this in my .mailfilter:
> if ( /^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/ )
> {
>     EXITCODE=99
>     exit
> }
>

I am wondering why my rule below is still delivering the spam BOTH to the
Maildir I specify as a cc (to collect spam for bayesian feeding) AND to
the original user's maildir:

        if ( /^X-Spam-Level: \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/ )
        {
                log "%% Utter spam rejected %%"
                cc "/home/mail/spam/Maildir"
                EXITCODE=99
                exit
        }

Shouldn't the mailfilter exit and NOT deliver to the default Maildir? I
see the log message above in the log.


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