[ILUG] Running spamassassin on a large number of email messages

[Kingsley G. Morse Jr.]

Hi Timothy,

spamc's man page says it has extremely low
overhead.

Perhaps something like the following simple script
would work for you.

    $ find email_directory/ | while read message ; do cat $message | if ! spamc -c ; then echo $message is spam ; fi ; done

Thanks,
Kingsley

On 09/09/08 22:42, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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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