Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 09:42:04PM +, 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 import

Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread John Hasler
Russell L. Harris writes: > What is a reasonable approach to culling spam and junk from the > downloaded mail? Spamassassin. Manually select representative ham and spam (as much as you can stand and/or have time for) and use that to train it. Then just let 'er rip on the whole thing (preferably