Installing a spam filter to throw away (or file away) your spam

Altacumbre has installed SpamAssassin and Clam. Clam examines your email for viruses. SpamAssassin runs a series of tests on your email to see if it's spam.
Both of these programs will tag a message as spam or a virus. A script on altacumbre then looks at the results (qmail-scanner) and decides what to do. In the case of viruses, we throw the message away. No need to save a dangerous item.
In the case of spam, we tag the message header. This marks the message as possible spam. It's quite possible one of your friends might send you an email about the Swedish-made-pencil-enlarger which could be mistaken for pornographic spam. So I leave it to you to filter your own spam rather than delete it automatically.
So we need to set up squirrelmail to filter spam messages based on the tag that was placed in the message header.

Step 1: Create a spam folder

Click on Folders on the top of your screen.
Create a new folder called Spam as a subfolder of INBOX
Refresh your folder list - you'll see it on the top left now.
Scroll down to the bottom of the screen.
Select INBOX.Spam in Additional Special Folders.
Click on Set Special.
Click on refresh folder list. Inbox.Spam will be in red on the top. Pretty nifty huh?

Step 2: Put the damn spam in it

Click on Options
Select Message Filters
You can set "What to scan" to all messages or "Only unread" messages. I recommend setting it to "Only unread" messages.
Click new
Match: Header
Contains: X-Spam-Status: Yes
Move To: INBOX.Spam

You could also scan the subject line for "[POSSIBLE SPAM]"

click on submit

Step 3: Go drink a homebrew!

You might want to occasionally look at the Spam folder while you're drinking your homebrew and delete real spam and reply to non-spam.