I remember back in '99 when Taral wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Feb 1999, Matthew Sayler wrote:
> >It is my understanding that procmail can 'blow up' a digest packet
> >into the individual messages.  Then you just direct them to a folder
> >and point mutt (or mailer-of-your-choice) at it.
> 
> You mean formail. formail -ds <command> will pipe each message of a digest
> separately through <command> (usually procmail -f-).

Correct.  I actually looked at the man page for procmail this time.

This recipee is supposed to split up mail into individual messages
using formail.

          :0:
          * ^Subject:.*surfing.*Digest
          | formail +1 -ds >>surfing

I assume there is no reason to send it back through procmail again.
(maybe locking issues?).  I personally avoid subscribing to
digests.

                Matt

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