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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:20:00 -0500 (CDT)
From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, albi wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:03:09 -0500 (CDT)
> Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> wrote:
>
> > I have a system that uses procmail & spamassassing to filter spam, but
> > there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated
> > its filter and received a lot of spam messages.
> >
> > Now, we have his inbox and about 9000 messages which are spam and
> > messages he wants to read.
> >
> > Is it possible now to filter the already received messages and
> > discard the spam from them?
> >
> > How can I do that?
>
> hi, take a look at the manual-page of "formail", it's part of procmail
> afaik, a Google-search for "formail filter" might help
>
> HTH,GL
>

Thanks, something like:

formail -s procmail -m .procmailrc < inbox

did the job.

Thank you, again.