Re: [cobalt-users] Webmail Error

["James A. Dory" <jim_dory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jens-Peter Otto wrote:

> > > I got rid of them by placing an empty file "filters.book" into /home/openwebmail/cgi-bin/openwebmail/etc
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> > Can that file be edited? In looking at the existing one, it looks to me 
> > like there is a filter blocking mail from yahoo.com and hotmail.com. The 
> > rest looks bonafide.. wonder if I just clip out that one line?
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> just try it :-)
> It looks like plain ascii and I think it should be safe to delete single lines as well.
> I however don't like the concept of making any filter mandatory to our clients. 
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> I think I'll change the file and swap the "1" at the last digit of each line for a "0" which deactivates the filter and copy the file to /etc/skel/user/en_US/mail/.filter.book, that should take care of it for new users who can then decide whether to use the filters or not.
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I did remove the line. Somewhere I read that it didn't work if you 
edited it, so I looked around on the openwebmail forum and found all 
kinds of permutations on how to deal with filters. Didn't find the 
answer. Anyway, seems to work. That line is gone now when you click on 
the mail filters in the gui...

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Jim D.