On Wednesday, November 2 at 10:49 AM, quoth Carthik Sharma:
$ formail -s procmail < Inbox I let it run overnight, and then in the morning, I found that only a few messages had been processed. Significantly, some messages were not re-delivered correctly. Does this always take a long, long time, or is there a problem with how I am doing it?
No idea - I don't use formail much (I don't trust it -- it ends up mangling messages more than I think it should).
But, it may be faster to first convert your Inbox to a Maildir, and then send them through procmail, like so (uses this perl script: http://www.qmail.org/mbox2maildir -- remember to make a copy of your inbox first, as the script is destructive):
env MAIL=Inbox MAILDIR=Inbox.tmp/ mbox2maildir
for msg in Inbox.tmp/new/* ; do
procmail < $msg &
done
Problem 2: I have the following macro for unmarking a message as spam, marking it as normal mail and re-filtering it: macro index H "<enter-command>unset wait_key\n<pipe-entry>bogofilter -Sn -l\n<pipe-entry>formail -I X-Bogosity|procmail\n<enter-command>set wait_key\n<delete-message>" "Unmark as spam, mark as non-spam and refilter to correct mailbox" The problem is that whenever I press H from some folder, it take about 1-2 minutes before I can use mutt again, since I have to wait for the processing to complete before I can resume using Mutt. With about 100 message in my "unsure-bogofilter" folder that need to be marked as "not-spam" this wait is unacceptable. Is there something I can do to ensure that the re-processing occurs in the background, so I can continue to use Mutt after using the "H" macro?
Have you tried putting an ampersand in the command? Like so:macro index H "<enter-command>unset wait_key<enter><pipe-entry>bogofilter -Sn -l &<enter><pipe-entry>formail -I X-Bogosity|procmail &<enter><enter-command>set wait_key<enter><delete-message>" "Unmark as spam, mark as non-spam and refilter to correct mailbox"
I tried unsuccessfully to tag all the messages and try to do an "H" on tagged messages - what is the right way of invoking a macro on all tagged messages?
By default? It's the ; key. You may also be interested in the auto_tag preference (set auto_tag).
Also, after 3 weeks, bogofilter still incorrectly marks spam as ham and ham as "unsure". Is this normal?
No idea - I've never used bogofilter (I'm a spamassassin devotee). Just fyi, all bayesian databases rely more on the volume than the time. So if, in the course of 3 weeks, you've only gotten 4 spam messages (for example), it's probably not going to be very accurate.
This is one of the main problems with filters that are exclusively bayesian.
~Kyle --One of the world's greatest problems is the impossibilty of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it.
-- Dave Wilbur
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