This is somewhat dependent on the way spamassin works, but I belive you could use the named pipe trick- assuming it never trys to do a seek on the file. Heres how to do it: mkfifo mypipe cat bib_mbox_file > mypipe & Then run spamassin on the file mypipe. I belive that when perl trys to open a filehandle, it may try and read all/part of the file into memory. But if its a named pipe, it cant do that, and everything works the same, except for seeking to a new location in the file. I have used this trick before to get around filesize limitations. Jay On Wednesday 26 June 2002 11:02 am, Clay Fandre wrote: > I have a couple of really large mbox files loaded with spam that I'd > like to filter. Anyone have a easy way of doing this? I tried sending > it through spamassassin -P, but my system ran out of memory. Any way > to parse 1 message at a time? > > -- Clay > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list