Spam email is usually archived for the purposes of creating a corpus for training a filter and identifying false positives. The user is required to manually go through spam messages to perform this sorting. One way of reducing this effort on the part of the user is to use automatic scripts and cron jobs to process and filter spam emails.

Separating spam into levels based on scores aid the user by presenting them with a smaller folder of spam to check for false positives. Spam reports can be generated by using similar scripts that parse the spam statistics that result from commands such as ps -ef. This is done by calling simple scripts from Procmail, or from running reports on system logs. These scripts and their results can be modified as required. For example, you can have site-wide and hourly reports. A little bit of an effort will relieve the system administrator and users from the considerable effort of sifting through large numbers of spam emails.