Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-02-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
> U. What do you mean by "keep the two streams separate"? SA > processes what's handed to it, one message at a time; the only reason I > could see trying to separate things is if running your archive through > SA would bog down the server enough to impact regular mail flow. The > proces

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-02-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Theo Van Dinter wrote: Huh? SA, and spamassassin specifically, certainly does handle splitting up mbox files into invdividual messages. Hence the --mbox option. I stand corrected. spamc, however, does not -- it's one message at a time. Reasonable enough, given that its primary usage is in

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-02-01 Thread Kris Deugau
Martin Gregorie wrote: I'd got that message for SA's normal operation and have looked at the innards of spamc closely enough to see that can only handle a single message at a time. As I said above, it was the --mbox option that confused me because, in general, an mbox file contains multiple messa

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-02-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:53:57PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > > No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is > > the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. On 31.01.08 19:23, Theo Van Dinter wrote: > Huh? SA, and spamassassin specifica

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:47:43PM -0600, Bookworm wrote: > To pick a very small nit - 'mbox' isn't referring to a folder. It's a > file. That depends if you're defining folder == directory, or if you're using the standard MUA definition of folder which is just a place to store messages. --

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Bookworm
Theo Van Dinter wrote: --mbox Specify that the input message(s) are in mbox format. mbox is a standard Unix message folder format. [...] To pick a very small nit - 'mbox' isn't referring to a folder. It's a file. 'maildir' could be called a folder format.

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:22:48PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote: > Ok, open mouth, insert foot.. there *IS* a --mbox option to spamassassin > in the 3.2 branch. I'm not sure if it will output in mbox format.. you > can give it a shot and see if the new mailbox file works.. Yes, yes it will. The hi

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 07:23:19PM +, 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 scanned.mbox Yes, though you can

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread mouss
Martin Gregorie wrote: spamassassin --mbox scanned.mbox No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. In that case, what does the --mbox option do? Not what I expected, evidently.

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 05:53:57PM -0500, Kris Deugau wrote: > No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is > the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. Huh? SA, and spamassassin specifically, certainly does handle splitting up mbox files

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Matt Kettler wrote: Martin Gregorie wrote: spamassassin --mbox scanned.mbox No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. In that case, what does the --mbox option do? Not what I ex

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Matt Kettler
Martin Gregorie wrote: spamassassin --mbox scanned.mbox No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn is the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail folder. In that case, what does the --mbox option do? Not what I expected, evidently.

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Gregorie
> > spamassassin --mbox scanned.mbox > > No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn > is the only SA component that can extract messages from an mbox mail > folder. > In that case, what does the --mbox option do? Not what I expected, evidently. > If I accidentally mangl

Re: Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Kris Deugau
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 scanned.mbox No, SA doesn't know how to split up messages for scanning; sa-learn

Bulk spam scan

2008-01-31 Thread Martin Gregorie
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 scanned.mbox I'm currently running spamc/spamd and know that works strictly one message at a time, but don't