[TriLUG] procmail again

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 16:20, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> okey, procmail can slice my bread and toast it too.  presumably
> there's a way to get it to do what i want:
> 
> a bunch of mail has been delivered to an account before i set
> up forwarding.  it is now in an mbox file.  is there a way to
> feed the mbox file to procmail (or something else) so that it
> will get re-processed according to the .procmailrc file?
> 
> mbox format is *not* the same as the format received directly
> from sendmail.  i presume.

Correct, there are slight differences between what's in the mbox format
and the mail as received by procmail from sendmail.

Try the following command:
formail -s procmail < mboxfile

formail -s will split up the mbox format file into individual messages,
and pipe them to the given command, in this case, procmail.

I *think* that will work, though when I tried it, it didn't seem to
process the system-wide /etc/procmailrc so it didn't deliver exactly as
I expected.  But if you don't have anything special in /etc/procmailrc,
and your normal rules are in ~/.procmailrc, that should work fine.  I'd
suggest testing it with a small mbox first (make one with pine or mutt
or something).

Hope this helps,
Jeremy

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