On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 04:54:35PM +1000, irene leslie wrote:
Hoping I can get some help
I have recently taken over this job and need to find out how to look after
my email server - obviously running Sqwebmail.
Today the entire community recieved a viral email from an account called
"service" and it was carrying a zip file - How do I clean my server of all
these emails and how do I install some better filtering???
I'm afraid that's not something related to sqwebmail. sqwebmail is not
involved in the delivery of messages into mailboxes - some other program (a
Mail Transfer Agent or MTA) will do that. Examples include sendmail, qmail,
exim, postfix, and courier-mta. sqwebmail just lets users read messages once
they've been delivered.
So you need to find which one of those you're using, and then go to the
appropriate mailing list and ask there about the different kinds of filter
you could install and how to install them.
Your MTA will be delivering messages in Maildir format (it must be, because
that's the only format sqwebmail recognises). Under a Maildir, each message
is stored in a separate file. So to clean out particular messages, you just
delete those files.
Regards,
Brian.