A mechanism for automatically detecting such unwanted messages in real time,
which
is referred to herein as the Redundant Email Address Detection And Capture System
(READACS) is disclosed. The READACS program assumes that incoming mail files have
been written to disk in a file format that is somewhat consistent and/or predictable
by the programmer. The task of READACS is to identify those email message files,
locate an address-of-origin within those files, identify whether the email message
should be considered spam, separate spam and non-spam email messages logically,
and physically move or rename (or both) those email messages as desired by the programmer.
