<quote who="Fred Van Andel"> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On August 4, 2003 11:10 am, Bryan Traywick wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 06:55:04PM +0100, Dhruba Bandopadhyay > wrote: >> > Hello >> > >> > Procmail is used to filter incoming mail into respective >> > folders but how can I filter the email that is already there in >> > my inbox into their respective folders? >> >> Try this link >> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2002-07/msg0037 >>1.html >> >> The code is: >> >> cd path/to/dir/new >> for file in *; do >> procmail < $file >> done >> >> That should resort your mail using your new procmail recipes. I >> used these same steps to resort my mail and it worked fine. Hope >> that helps :) > > That method will only work if you are using maildirs but not if you > are using mbox format. It maybe easier to do the filtering > directly in your mail client.
Yes. I am using maildirs. Many thanks for all replies. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
