Best Practices - Historical Mail (Mac)

[JaknVA]

Hoping someone has a better practice than what I’ve tried previously.

I need to remove SPAM from old email and am wondering if there is a “BEST” practice on how to use SpamSieve to filter existing mail archives. In the past, I’ve highlighted large groups of messages and then clicked “Apply Rules”, however I believe this practice only blows up my Corpus.

I was pondering shutting of Training by unchecking the three "“Train” boxes, but am not sure if this is the best way to address my large historical archives. I am aware that I need to do relatively small blocks of messages at one time.

Any help would be GREATLY APPRECIATED.

Thanks…

Jack.

[Michael_Tsai]

@JaknVA

I need to remove SPAM from old email and am wondering if there is a “BEST” practice on how to use SpamSieve to filter existing mail archives. In the past, I’ve highlighted large groups of messages and then clicked “Apply Rules”, however I believe this practice only blows up my Corpus.

When using Apply Rules on large batches of old messages, you should temporarily uncheck Auto-train with incoming mail.

@JaknVA

I am aware that I need to do relatively small blocks of messages at one time.

Where did you see that? Large blocks of messages should be fine.