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On August 4, 2003 11:10 am, Bryan Traywick wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay 
wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > Procmail is used to filter incoming mail into respective
> > folders but how can I filter the email that is already there in
> > my inbox into their respective folders?
>
> Try this link
> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2002-07/msg0037
>1.html
>
> The code is:
>
> cd path/to/dir/new
> for file in *; do
>       procmail < $file
> done
>
> That should resort your mail using your new procmail recipes. I
> used these same steps to resort my mail and it worked fine. Hope
> that helps :)

That method will only work if you are using maildirs but not if you 
are using mbox format.  It maybe easier to do the filtering 
directly in your mail client.

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