OT: spam filter

Martin Hepworth martinh at solid-state-logic.com
Mon Jul 10 09:06:38 IST 2006


Alex Neuman wrote:
> Can a bunch of messages in a directory be turned into an mbox file? I've 
> god a folder (looks like cyrus maildir) that I need to turn into an mbox 
> file.
> 
> Any suggestions?
>> Off the top of my head it seems to suggest a combination of "formail"
>> and "procmail".  Parse the mbox with formail to break it up into
>> individual messages, then pump them though spamassassin and depending on
>>  what spamassassin finds, either dump to another mbox or delete (using
>> procmail).  There are probably other ways, but it's 6:15am and I haven't
>> had my coffee yet :P
>>   
> 
Alex

'cat' all the emails together and that's your mbox file...assuming all 
the emails are in plain text in the first place..

-- 
Martin Hepworth
Senior Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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