Any way to process lots of messages in webmail with SpamAssassin?

[Kent Brockman]

Hi! I searched the forums but I had no luck on this one.

I adquired a couple vps where SpamAssassin wasn't auto-deleting spam. So, webmail folders are crowded with spam.

Is there any command line or script to run and make SpamAssassin scan those particular mail accounts to auto-delete its contained spam?

Thanks in advance!

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

It won't scan messages that have already been delivered, but you could develop a bash script that searches for specific content within an email and removes any messages that match the search term.

Thank you.

 

[Kent Brockman]

ok, that's bad news. well, thanks, I had the hope to automagically been able to run some bash script that make SA scan a delete all those msgs with certain score.

Maybe a find command with awk to detect the string "Score: " and evaluate the value and act accordingly?

 

[cPanelMichael]

Maybe a find command with awk to detect the string "Score: " and evaluate the value and act accordingly?

Yes, this is one option that you may find helpful. Note that you likely want to move the messages to another location for a set time period before removing them in-case customers complain of the removal of legitimate email.

Thank you.

 

[Kent Brockman]

I know, I should try piping results to dir command rather than rm until I got it perfectly ok And then, I should move the message files to the spam folder.

I think I need some senior help here. I built the command to read the Scores, but I don't know how to eval them if the value is, let's say, bigger than 5 (for X-Spam-Score: 5 and upper).

grep -nr "X-Spam-Score: " /home/accountname/mail/[email protected]_com/new | cut -d':' -f4

Not sure how to evaluate values from the command line. Is it possible?

 

[cPanelMichael]

You may find this third-party URL helpful:

linux - Use grep to find content in files and move them if they match - Stack Overflow

Thank you.