On Tuesday 09 September 2008, FRLinux wrote:
I have a directory containing about 50,000 email messages,
of which I am sure over 95% is spam.
What is the best (quickest) way of passing these messages through spamassassin
and deleting those that fail the test.
[I'm running spamd on the machine in question.]
A simple script - if appropriate - would be very much appreciated.
> Hello Timothy, you didn't specify the mailbox format (mbox or Maildir)
They are in maildir format - 50,000 separate files.
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