On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:33:51PM +0200, Alexandre Neubert wrote: > Hello List, > > I have a problem regarding procmail. I use mutt and fetchmail (which I set > up using advises from this list :)) to retrieve my email from gmail. It > works fine and I have several filters on procmail to order my mail in > several folders. > If I use procmail while retrieving my mail, filtering works fine. But I also > have a mailbox which has already several hundred messages I want to sort > using the filters from procmail. > Here is the problem: I did'nt find a way to launch procmail on an existing > filled mailbox when not retriving the mail at the same time. > > I looked into options and man pages, but this option does not seem to exist. > > In clear, I want be able to make something like: > procmail .procmail/debian-list.rc Mail/inbox > > where debian-list;rc is the filter rule and inbox the inbox on which to > apply the filter. > > Is that even possible using procmail? If yes, what options do I have to use? >
Thats what formail is for. You probably want something like `formail -s procmail <Mail/inbox'. The -s stands for split. Formail calls procmail for each individual message. -- Klaus Wacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Experimentelle Physik V http://www.physik.uni-dortmund.de/~wacker Universitaet Dortmund Tel.: +49 231 755 3587 D-44221 Dortmund Fax: +49 231 755 4547 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
