On Tue, Dec 15, 1998 at 08:57:47PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Have there been duplicates? I suppose that you first need to move your > mailfile /var/spool/mail/my_account to your $HOME and then start > formail/procmail as procmail appends the mails while cat reads them again > and again?!
That's about what happens, the emails are appended to the mail file again and again. Procmail's man page includes a script which filters your mail without this problem. I use it quite often when I fiddle with my recipes and it works great.