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 -- /=====================================================================\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \=====================================================================/
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