On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:42:04PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: > After a multi-hour download, I have in a directory of the local > machine roughly a gigabyte (1000 megabytes) of email. The mail is in > Maildir format. Much of the mail is spam or junk. However, the mail > includes some important emails, so searching and sorting is necessary. > > The local machine is running Debian Jessie with the xfce desktop, and > Mutt is running. > > What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the > downloaded mail?
Use maildir-utils or mairix to index and search. Use any spam filter program to try to programmatically sort the chaff from the wheat. -dsr-
