Good day, Andrew,
On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Andrew Xiang wrote:
> But I have a whole mbox with 10,000 messages. How can I pipe all the
> messages and move them?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Maul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Andrew Xiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Andrew Xiang wrote:
> > > I want to run spamassassin on my existing /var/mail/mymailbox and only
> move
> > > all the spam mail into /var/mail/spam .
> > >
> > > Is there a way to do that?
> >
> > you could run spamassassin -e on the message and then make a quick
> > script to check the return status and move the messages accordingly.
> >
> > -e, --exit-code Exit with a non-zero exit code
> > if the tested message was spam
> >
> > SA doesnt move anything on its own so you'd have to script it.
...with something like the following:
~/bin/reprocess-mailbox
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#!/bin/bash
#Copyright 2004 William Stearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#Released under the GPL
if [ -z "$1" ] || [ ! -r "$1" ]; then
echo "Usage: $0 folder-to-reprocess"
exit 1
fi
TmpFile=`mktemp -q "$1.XXXXXX"`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "$0: Can't create temp file, exiting..."
exit 1
fi
if [ ! -w "$TmpFile" ]; then
echo "$TmpFile unwriteable, exiting"
exit 1
fi
echo "working with $1 and $TmpFile"
nice formail -f -ds /usr/bin/spamc <"$1" >"$TmpFile"
echo "Processing done. Please check $TmpFile"
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This should be run on a mailbox that is _not_ actively recieving
mail. At the end, you'll need to rename the tmpfile back to the original
file to keep the changes, and then start your mail flowing again.
Cheers,
- Bill
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