Piping mail back into MailScanner?

Matt Kettler mkettler at EVI-INC.COM
Tue Aug 19 02:21:57 IST 2003


At 12:32 PM 8/18/2003 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
>I've got some 1000 spam messages that I collated before I got spam assassin
>working and I'd like to run them back through it to aid in my configuration
>fine-tuning.  Is there any way to pipe an mbox file full of messages through
>MailScanner or should I give up on a lost cause?

As an alternative, if you just want to test how spamasssassin will score
them, you might consider just using spamassassin's mass-check tool. This is
going to be VERY fast by comparison to dumping it all back through mailscanner.

The only thing you'll need to do is make sure to copy mailscanner's
spam.assassin.prefs.conf to the user_prefs of the user that's going to
execute mass-check on the mailbox.

mass-check is distributed with spamassassin in the masses/ subdirectory of
the tarball.



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