Spam
The university mail is automatically checked for spam and junk mail. The spam checker does not delete or move the mail but it marks each spam mail with a certain flag in the mail header:
X-Spam-Status: Yes
To filter the mail according to the spam status, you can use any mail filter application, e.g. the built-in functionality in your thunderbird email-client.
procmail script
The basic way is to use procmail: Create a file .procmailrc right in your home directory (don't forget the . in front of the filename!!) Edit the file with a standard text editor and enter
MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail :0
- X-Spam-Status: Yes spam
This was all mails marked as spam are automatically sorted out into the file /home/<login>/Mail/spam. This does work for any mail client you use (e.g. thunderbird)
Thunderbird
You can filter out the spam also in your thunderbird mail client:
- Open Tools -> Message Filters -> New
- Instead of Subject choose Customize
- Create a new message header entry X-Spam-Flag
- Use option contains with parameter YES
- Choose an appropriate action (e.g. Move Message to folder Spam on <accountname>
- To run the filter now choose Tools -> Run filters on folder
- From now on it will be run automatically each time you receive mails