IMAP and Outlook Spam training

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This article applies to the following ZCS versions.

ZCS 5.0 Article ZCS 5.0 ZCS 4.5 Article ZCS 4.5

ZCS 5.0.11+

ZCS 5.0.11+ Junk/Spam folders are 'item-move-aware' per bug 9532. In other words, when you move mail into your Junk/Spam folder it will be "queued for processing by the spam filter/trainer". Previously, this was NOT the case.


Prior to ZCS 5.0.11

IMAP/Outlook move to junk doesn't train anti-spam - It seems that when you move a mail to junk folder on IMAP client (like Thunderbird) anti-spam filter on MTA does not use that mail as a spam example for training... See bug 9532

Here is a bash script created from the comments against this bug. I have tested it on our system and it appears to work OK. Feel free to contribute and enhance! Full credit for this script is due to bobby@zimbra.com and dmangot@terracottatech.com who wrote the bits which I just pasted together!

#!/bin/bash

wikiuser=`zmprov getConfig zimbraNotebookAccount | cut -d ' ' -f 2`;
hamuser=`zmprov getConfig zimbraSpamIsNotSpamAccount | cut -d ' ' -f 2`;
spamuser=`zmprov getConfig zimbraSpamIsSpamAccount | cut -d ' ' -f 2`;

users=`zmprov getAllAccounts | grep -v -e $wikiuser -e $hamuser -e $spamuser`;

for zuser in $users
do
echo "Train spam for $zuser"
/opt/zimbra/bin/zmtrainsa $zuser spam junk
done

echo "Zimbra spam training complete"

To install, save the above script as 'learnmorespam.sh', copy to /opt/zimbra/learnmorespam.sh on your Zimbra server. Set ownership and make executable:

[root@mail ~]# chmod +x /opt/zimbra/learnmorespam.sh
[root@mail ~]# chown zimbra:zimbra /opt/zimbra/learnmorespam.sh

And then create this crontab entry, /etc/crontab

#Learn more spam 6am daily
0 6 * * * zimbra /opt/zimbra/learnmorespam.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

That should be it :)

Another:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::IMAPClient;
my $host="<edit>";
my $username="<edit>";
my $password="<edit>";
my @real_users=`/opt/scalix/bin/omshowu -m all -i`;     # get all real user names.
foreach my $punter (@real_users)                        # Loop over them all.
{
        chomp $punter;                                  # Remove trailing carriage return.
        if ("$punter" ne "postmaster")
        {
        print "$punter\n";                              # Some output. Feel free to remove.
        #$punter =~s/@/\\@/;
        my $user="mboxadmin:$username:$punter";         # Set up superuser login.
        my $imap  = new Mail::IMAPClient( 'Server' => $host , 'User' => $user , 'Password' => $password  ) or next;  # connect to server.
        my @folders=$imap->folders;                     # list folders.
        foreach my $i ( @folders ) { print $i; }
        foreach  my $folder (@folders)                  # Look through each of them.
        {
                print lc($folder),"\n";
                if (lc($folder) eq "junk e-mail")                                                                    # "junk email" folder.
                {
                        print "Found a spam folder: $folder\n";
                       $imap->select($folder) or next;                                                                  # Select the folder.
                        print "Folder $folder selected.\n";
                        my @list=$imap->messages or next;                                                              # List all messages in folder.
                        print scalar(@list)." messages in folder.\n";
                        foreach my $msg (reverse(@list))                                                                # Loop over them all.
                        {
                                my @email=$imap->fetch($msg,'RFC822');                                                  # Fetch message.
                                open (SALEARN,"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -d | /usr/bin/sa-learn --spam") or print "$!\n";  # Feed to sa-learn.
                                print SALEARN "$email[1]";
                                close SALEARN;
                                open (REPORT,"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -d | /usr/bin/spamassassin -r") or print "$!\n";   # Report it. (SpamCop and Pyzor).
                                print REPORT "$email[1]";
                                close REPORT;
                                $imap->delete_message($msg) or next;                                                    # Delete it.
                        }
                        $imap->expunge($folder) or next;                                                                #Expunge folder.
                }
                elsif(lc($folder) eq "not spam")
                {
                       $imap->select($folder) or next;                                                                  # Select the folder.
                        print "Folder $folder selected.\n";
                        my @list=$imap->messages or next;                                                              # List all messages in folder.
                        print scalar(@list)." messages in folder.\n";
                        foreach my $msg (reverse(@list))                                                                # Loop over them all.
                        {
                                my @email=$imap->fetch($msg,'RFC822');                                                  # Fetch message.
                                open (SALEARN,"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -d | /usr/bin/sa-learn --forget") or print "$!\n";# Sa-learn forget this message if already seen.
                                print SALEARN "$email[1]";
                                close SALEARN or print "$!\n";
                                open (SALEARN,"|/usr/bin/spamassassin -d | /usr/bin/sa-learn --ham") or next;          # Feed to sa-learn as ham.
                                print SALEARN "$email[1]";
                                close SALEARN;
                                $imap->delete_message($msg) or next;
                        }
                        $imap->expunge($folder) or next;

                }
        }
        }
}
Verified Against: unknown Date Created: 3/5/2008
Article ID: https://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=IMAP_and_Outlook_Spam_training Date Modified: 2015-03-24



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