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Old 24 Oct 2020, 06:00 AM   #1
Edward Velo
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Spam check before or after forwarding?

Hi,

I have my own domain hosted at Fastmail.

I have setup an alias so that emails are both stored at Fastmail, and also forwarded to an external email address.

Now I noticed that Fastmail correctly detects spam, and stores it in the spam folder. However, those emails are still forwarded.

The forward is apparently done before the spamcheck. Is there a way to change this?

Thanks!
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Old 24 Oct 2020, 08:16 AM   #2
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If you are doing the forwarding using the alias "Also send to all contacts in" setting then, yes, the message is redirected before reaching the Sieve script so no spam checking is done (reference FastMail's Email forwarding doc).

If you want spam checking done before redirecting a copy of an incoming message then create an explicit rule to do it and use "Send a copy to" in the rule to do the forwarding.

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Old 24 Oct 2020, 08:23 AM   #3
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I would try putting the forwarding rule in the rules Sieve code after the spam section (### 3 in my sieve) and make a rule to forward emails only if the spam score (X-Spam-score) is less then the number you are using for spam filtering.

Others might have better methods they can share.
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Old 24 Oct 2020, 08:39 AM   #4
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Isn't that what I just suggested?
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Old 24 Oct 2020, 08:52 AM   #5
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Isn't that what I just suggested?
I posted around the same time - I didn't see your post until after I posted
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Old 24 Oct 2020, 09:31 AM   #6
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Isn't that what I just suggested?
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I posted around the same time - I didn't see your post until after I posted
Great minds..
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Old 24 Oct 2020, 11:30 AM   #7
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Ah, posting "overlap" (that's what I call it). Been there done that in forums too. I apologize gardenweed for my followup post.
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Old 26 Oct 2020, 11:46 PM   #8
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If you want spam checking done before redirecting a copy of an incoming message then create an explicit rule to do it and use "Send a copy to" in the rule to do the forwarding.
Thanks, that did it.
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