thanks Zoki
I wasn't confusing things, I probably just didn't write the question well
(I think I had a bit of a headache at the time...)
I was saying that I could get my email resorted into different mailboxes,
but I couldn't sort have them sorted by date in the mailboxes. I didn't
want my mail program to be sorting them. I wanted it sorted in the
mailbox.
I ended up writing a perl script to sort all the email in a mailbox by
date.
thanks for your help anyway.
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Zoki wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Chris Dowling wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> ->I've just set up a new set of procmail recipies, and want to have all my
> ->mail resorted according to these rules.
> ->
> ->I know I can simply do
> -> formail -s procmail < mailbox
> ->
> ->but I have many mailboxes, and one of the things I want to keep intact is
> ->the order (ie: date) that everything arrived.
> ->
> ->one idea I had was to get all the mailboxes in one file, then somehow sort
> ->that file in order of date arival.
>
>
> *** I'm afraid you're mixing up a few things. If you want to sort on date,
> go to your mail agent and sort it, if you want specific filtering rules
> like puting mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] in $HOME/mail/totos_mail then you
> put a filtering rule in $HOME/.procmailrc and you use the script which
> follows. It reads .procmailrc, and filters your mailbox. Make sure the
> destinations exist and don't do it while reading the mail in the mailbox
> you're filtering!
>
> ## START ##
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
>
> if cd $HOME &&
> test -s $ORGMAIL &&
> lockfile -r 0 -l 1024 /tmp/.newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
> then
> trap "rm -f /tmp/.newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15
> umask 077
> lockfile -l 1024 -ml
> cat $ORGMAIL >> /tmp/.newmail &&
> cat /dev/null > $ORGMAIL
> lockfile -mu
> formail -s procmail < /tmp/.newmail &&
> rm -f /tmp/.newmail
> rm -f /tmp/.newmail.lock
> fi
> exit 0
>
> ## END ##
>
> Cheers!
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