Re: sorting mail residing in a local directory
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-
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