Re: I need a simple spam fitler to sort through about 500 files

There are enough spam filters, or otherwise general purpose mail filters with spam rulesets that it'd be pointless to reinvent the wheel.

Especially because we don't know how to have the messages stored (500 files may be 500 mbox format mailboxes, or 500 messages, or 500 Outlook mailboxes, etc.)

spam.abuse.net has a rather long list of mail filters. Many are SMTP based, but you can always just set something up to reprocess the mail.

If you just need a program for filtering mail, based on whatever rules you're using, you could try Mail::Procmail. I've never used the module, but I've been using the original procmail implementation for years for sorting mailing lists, spam, etc.

You might also search CPAN for spam which pulls up a lot of hits.

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Re^2: I need a simple spam fitler to sort through about 500 files by originalkilroy (Initiate) on Mar 26, 2005 at 17:24 UTC
All I need to do is filter already given spam from an INBOX folder to a SPAM folder in the process delete and rename the file. When I need a simple patteren and a set of rules to write to the header of thae spam as it is written back to the spam.<filename> in the SPAM folder. Thank you, OriginalKilroy What are we going to do tonight Brain? What we do every night Pinky take over the world.	[reply]