Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 19:20:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: albi <albi@saynotomicrosoft.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spam in an inbox. Message-ID: <20040410191857.G95609@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20040410221200.2e7d04a9@moonshine.eyfa.org> References: <20040410140222.H80144@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> <20040410221200.2e7d04a9@moonshine.eyfa.org>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, albi wrote: > On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 15:03:09 -0500 (CDT) > Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> wrote: > > > I have a system that uses procmail & spamassassing to filter spam, but > > there is an old account of a friend of mine that had not activated > > its filter and received a lot of spam messages. > > > > Now, we have his inbox and about 9000 messages which are spam and > > messages he wants to read. > > > > Is it possible now to filter the already received messages and > > discard the spam from them? > > > > How can I do that? > > hi, take a look at the manual-page of "formail", it's part of procmail > afaik, a Google-search for "formail filter" might help > > HTH,GL > Thanks, something like: formail -s procmail -m .procmailrc < inbox did the job. Thank you, again.
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