Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory
Russell L. Harris writes: What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the downloaded mail? Spamassassin. Manually select representative ham and spam (as much as you can stand and/or have time for) and use that to train it. Then just let 'er rip on the whole thing (preferably on a machine that you won't need to use for anything else for a while). -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:42:04PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail includes some important emails, so searching and sorting is necessary. The local machine is running Debian Jessie with the xfce desktop, and Mutt is running. What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the downloaded mail? Use maildir-utils or mairix to index and search. Use any spam filter program to try to programmatically sort the chaff from the wheat. -dsr-
sorting mail residing in a local directory
After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail includes some important emails, so searching and sorting is necessary. The local machine is running Debian Jessie with the xfce desktop, and Mutt is running. What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the downloaded mail? RLH
