On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 11:23:17AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: ... > you've got a mbox with hundreds of messages > in it, and you've updated your .procmailrc or > exim.conf with new filtering rules, and you > wanna run them on your mbox to split it up > into pieces, perhaps forwarding certain messages > on to other folks, or deleting those matching > pattern X.
you could try the script down below, but beware I'm not a guru and myself I have troubles using formail on the debian-user-digest, it chops of some attachments it seems (or is that an error of the digest at debian.org?, never checked it). You can do without the locking if you do # mv mbox mbox.unsorted # formail -s procmail <mbox.unsorted > my failing memory tells me it involved an odd > option along the lines of "-0f0" or "-f1"... The big question is ofcourse for which program:) ++++++++++++++++++ # cat sortmail #!/bin/bash unset noclobber ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME #adjust to need export MAILDIR=~/Mail if cd $HOME && test -s $ORGMAIL && lockfile -r0 -l3600 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null then trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 15 umask 077 lockfile -l3600 -ml cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail && cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL lockfile -mu formail -s procmail <.newmail && rm -f .newmail rm -f .newmail.lock fi exit 0 ++++++++++++++ -- groetjes, carel
