Day: August 27, 2021

Yes. I had a problem where my syslog wasn't being rotated and a year had gone by. This made the tracking center appear to have incoming mails that weren't there...they were from a year ago. I wrote about it in another post. That got me to wondering. Does the Proxmox mail gateway when setup to fetch mail from another service provider actually run the rules against the mail destined to the target mailbox? After clearing up the issue with the syslog rotation I found that indeed it does process the rules. This is nice as there is a lot of spam that comes into my google mail box and it is one reason I do not want to go there. This is years after inactivity. There are still entities that…

It is possible to block by subject using the PMG. My reasoning for doing this is that I want to continue to get emails from certain parties but I don't want to get certain regular spam from them. For instance, I'm not interested in Google My Business. I do want to continue to get emails from Google just in case I need to reset my password, etc. To do this it consists of 3 parts. The first is to create a "what object". This can be found under the "Mail Filter" menu on the left side of the window. Here you click to create the what object by giving it a name and a description. The second part is to click on your new "what object" and focus your eyes…