toadi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

hello,

I have spamassasin running on my mailspool. It works for some spam. But over a year I have gathered +5000 extra spams. They are no longer on the mailspool but in mbox format on that server. I want to move the SPAM's from the inbox to the spam file(both in mbox format).

I've seen some usefull modules. But for the moment these are lengthy solution for a script I'm only going to use once.



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Re: Spam filter my mbox
by xorl (Deacon) on Aug 31, 2004 at 14:47 UTC
    Are the Spams marked as spam? If so how? Can't you use your email program to identify the tag and select all tagged messages? You probably don't even need Perl for this. If you need to use Perl, I'd open the mbox file, seperate all the messages, scan each message, for messages with the tag append them to the other file and delete them from the mbox file.

    If they're not already marked, good luck I hope someone else around here can help 'cause I can't come close to getting an automated solution to identify spam.

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      Like I said they are missed by my spamfilter, so they are not marked. But I found anther solution. Open the mbox in thunderbird and sort them :)


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        Once you select what is spam and what's not, and you have two new mboxes, you'd better off doing a tour on them with sa-learn from the SpamAssassin distribution. You'll see that your spamassassin will have far less false positives

        From the sa-learn man page:

        NAME
       sa-learn - train SpamAssassin's Bayesian classifier

SYNOPSIS
       sa-learn [options] [file]...

[...]
       Options:

        --ham                             Learn messages as ham (non-s
+pam)
        --spam                            Learn messages as spam
[...]
        --mbox                            Input sources are in mbox fo
+rmat
        --showdots                        Show progress using dots
        --no-rebuild                      Skip building databases afte
+r scan
[...]

DESCRIPTION
       Given a typical selection of your incoming mail classified
       as spam or ham (non-spam), this tool will feed each mail
       to SpamAssassin, allowing it to 'learn' what signs are
       likely to mean spam, and which are likely to mean ham.

       Simply run this command once for each of your mail fold­
       ers, and it will ''learn'' from the mail therein.

[...]
       SpamAssassin remembers which mail messages it's learnt
       already, and will not re-learn those messages again,
       unless you use the --forget option.  Messages learnt as
       spam will have SpamAssassin markup removed, on the fly.

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