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

Question

How to set spam filter settings for bunch of email accounts 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 should be used to update multiple mailboxes simultaneously:

# 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

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

Or if such messages detected as spam should be moved to spam folder, then this can be used:

# 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 needed 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

For details about spam settings management via Plesk CLI, visit:

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