On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:23:19PM +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > I need to scan a set of archived mbox files for spam, mark the messages > appropriately, and save them in a second mbox file. Should the following > command do what I want? > > spamassassin --mbox <mbox >scanned.mbox
Yes, though you can skip the input redirection.
spamassassin --mbox input.mbox > scanned.mbox
> I'm currently running spamc/spamd and know that works strictly one
> message at a time, but don't understand the ins and outs of using SA to
> process bulk files. I've read through the man pages and online
> documentation but didn't see an explicit answer to this question.
> Apologies for wasting bandwidth if I should have seen it.
I'm biased of course, but I think it's pretty obvious from the man page:
$ man spamassassin-run
[...]
By default, message(s) are read in from STDIN (< mailmessage),
or from specified files and directories (path ...) STDIN and
files are assumed to be in file format, with a single message
per file. Directories are assumed to be in a format where each
file in the directory contains only one message (directories are
not recursed and filenames containing whitespace or beginning with
"." or "," are skipped). The options --mbox and --mbx can override
the assumed format, see the appropriate OPTION information below.
[...]
--mbox
Specify that the input message(s) are in mbox format.
mbox is a standard Unix message folder format.
[...]
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