It seem to copy all the emails into the temp file. It does not remove spam from the mbox. The purpose is to remove all the spams inside mailbox.
-Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Andrew Xiang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Jim Maul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ML-spamassassin-talk" <users@spamassassin.apache.org>; "William Stearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2004 12:40 PM Subject: Re: how to run SA3.0.1 on a existing mailbox > 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 > ---- snip ---- > > #!/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" > ---- snip ---- > > 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 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > "5) what are people like spaf/chris rouland/lance then? > a) THEY ARE THE ENEMY. WHITEHATS = ENEMY." > -- http://www.blackhatbloc.org/phrack/texts/faq1.txt > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > William Stearns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Mason, Buildkernel, freedups, p0f, > rsync-backup, ssh-keyinstall, dns-check, more at: http://www.stearns.org > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
