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

sorting mail residing in a local directory

2015-08-12 Thread Russell L. Harris
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 r