Chris Bayley, 2003-06-10 19:33:40 +1200: > I have looked at man pages and a some howtos but I can't yet determine > how I can use procmail to sort existing messages in an arbitary maildir > rather than sorting incoming messages.... > I have 16K+ messages in my inbox and would like to run procmail over it > to sort out the wheat/chaffe > Any quick pointers would be appreciated.
My /usr/share/doc/procmail/QuickStart file (maybe Debian specific, I don't know) contains this: <quote> If you have to refilter an old mail folder according to your current ~/.procmailrc file, you may do the following: cat mbox | formail -s procmail But of course if your mbox file is the target of a procmail recipe you should do this instead: mv mbox whatever cat whatever | formail -s procmail See formail(1) for details. </quote> (blah blah backup your mail first blah blah blah) Tim -- Timothy Musson - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~trmusson/
