From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 10 13:23:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3241016A4CE for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from out014.verizon.net (out014pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDC6943D1D for ; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 13:23:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([68.160.247.127]) by out014.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20040410202329.TEHJ5247.out014.verizon.net@mac.com>; Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:23:29 -0500 Message-ID: <407857A7.9000101@mac.com> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 16:23:03 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eduardo Viruena Silva References: <20040410140222.H80144@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20040410140222.H80144@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out014.verizon.net from [68.160.247.127] at Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:23:28 -0500 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam in an inbox. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 20:23:30 -0000 Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > Is it possible now to filter the already received messages and > discard the spam from them? > > How can I do that? Hav him open the messages using an MTA which performs it's own spam filtering, such as Mozilla or Apple's Mail.app. Use that MTA to zap and delete the spam, and then he can go back to using whatever his normal MTA is... > Of course, I can make a program that decides where each message starts and > where it ends, save it in a file and then filter it with spamassassin and > with the filtered file use grep to find "X-Spam-flag: YES to discard this > message. > > I think it is too complicated... Is there an easier solution? See above. The other approach would be to install procmail and use formail to handle the hard part of splitting the messages up, although I would expect that SpamAssassin can be fed an entire mailbox at a time instead... -- -Chuck