That is fine. Effectively Roundcubemail provides the interface for Sieve rules/filters in ClearOS, but it is a paid app. You've gone straight to the underlying files which allows you to trigger a more powerful script.

I have solved this!

Cyrus has a built-in filtering system which can redirect mail to folders according to rules you supply. I found on my old server I had set up some rules, but had forgotten all about it.

The rule I needed (for user nikki) was:

# cat spamrule

require                                                   

["fileinto","envelope","reject","vacation","imapflags","relational","comparator-i;ascii-numeric","regex","notify"];

if header :contains "x-spam-flag" "YES" {

  fileinto "user/nikki/SPAM";

  stop;

}

And, when logged in as user nikki, I can add this rule to the system using sieveshell as follows (nb: the sieveshell prompt is >:

sieveshell -u nikki localhost:2000

Please enter your password:

> put spamrule

> activate spamrule

> list

spamrule  <- active script

> quit

Of course, this presupposes you can open a shell for each user (I logged in as root and used

su -s /bin/bash - nikki

), and that you know each user's password (which I do).

I am not aware of ClearOS 6.x being able to move spam mail automatically, but it may just be a faulty memory. There are two ways of doing it that I know. It can be done in your e-mail client. In Thunderbird, for example, you can set up message rules which trigger on the subject line or there is also a specific Junk Mail setting which allows you to "Trust junk mail headers set buy:" and pick Spamassassin. The other way is to use sieve rules. The paid-for version of Roundcume allows you to do this. If you set the rule in Roundcube, Roundcube does not have to be running for the rule to function. Both methods have the disadvantage that it is a per user function and not global. I do not know how to set this globally. I looked years ago before I even had Roundcube but got nowhere. In those days I think I was under ClearOS 5.x and Horde.