text_combined: arthur dent boxcdjtroodosdemoncouk fri feb 08 2008 020245pm 0100 paolo cravero wrote arthur dent wrote hmmm delete exactly salearn job take long archivemail job kicked finds tempspam tempham mboxes mail directory dutifully chops anything older 180 days didnt think would problem maybe upsetting salearn try switch order jobs archivemail running first see makes difference point probably already swapped two processes think salearn process feeding like chopping yes sorry didnt post update embarrassed stupidity thinking carefully posting original message switching jobs round indeed mean salearn longer getting interfered archivemail midlearn behaves quite sensibly well explained previous post tempham folder concatenation nonspam folders mail older 180 days taken one end new mail c 3040 per day added total remains roughly constant dont forget salearn remembers messages learned old messages learned need feed new arrivals since last salearn run need keep 180 days worth ham spam temp folder yes understand keep temp folder spamham dont know needs learn new mails im basically lazy seemed far easier simply take nonspam folders copy together one big temporary file run salearn delete temporary file eg binbash cat mailmailinglists mailworkstuff mailadmin tempham salearn ham mbox mailtempham rm mailtempham im bashscripting wiz much obvious could think easy way strip todays mails 20odd folders feed salearn way need nothing job takes half hour im asleep happens ok salearn work bit harder needs hey better 180 days thing choose keep last 6 months approx mail 20 folders rest zipped gzip archive using archivemail neat little utility btw 180 days default setting see told lazy let salearn complete chop folder concatenate process rather schedule crontab fix apparent weirdness paolo thanks help suggestions much appreciated mark wed 06 aug 2008 000543 0000 salearn weirdness