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How to manage spam filter settings for multiple email accounts in Plesk for Linux?

Anton Kuznetsov
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  • Plesk for Linux

Question

How to set spam filter settings for a batch of email accounts while avoiding configuration of Spamassassin on server level in Plesk for Linux?

Answer

Plesk GUI and spamasassin utility do not support multiple mail accounts management at once. Instead, the following command can be used to update multiple mailboxes simultaneously. This command will enable Spamassassin on all mailboxes (if disabled), set 5 hits required for marking a message as spam, set spam messages to be deleted:

# plesk db -Ne"SELECT CONCAT(mail_name,'@',name) FROM mail,domains WHERE dom_id=domains.id AND postbox='true';"| while read i;do /usr/local/psa/bin/spamassassin -u $i -status true -action del -hits 5;done

In case messages detected as spam should be moved to spam folder, the following command can be used instead:

# plesk db -Ne"SELECT CONCAT(mail_name,'@',name) FROM mail,domains WHERE dom_id=domains.id AND name='example.com' AND postbox='true';"| while read i;do /usr/local/psa/bin/spamassassin -u $i -status true -action move -hits 7;done

In case it's required to disable SpamAssassin on mailboxes from a specific domain:

# plesk db -Ne"SELECT CONCAT(mail_name,'@',name) FROM mail,domains WHERE dom_id=domains.id AND name='example.com' AND postbox='true';"| while read i;do /usr/local/psa/bin/spamassassin -u $i -status false;done

Additional information

spamassassin: Spam Filtering

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    Florian Bauernfeind

    the above examples seem to have a typo, this works: plesk db -Ne "SELECT CONCAT(mail_name,'@',name) FROM mail,domains WHERE dom_id=domains.id AND postbox='true';" | while read i; do plesk bin spamassassin --update $i -status true -hits 3 -action move; done

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    RA ANDRIS-IT

    it describes not excactly - please be so kind to add an example for a domain named xyz

    thanks

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    Anton Kuznetsov

    Hello, the last command does exactly that, can you explain in detail what are you trying to achieve?

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