En Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 05:29:04PM +0800, Juan Miguel Cacho escribio:
#_ En Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +0800, Holden Hao escribio:
#_ #_ Can you filter an existing mailbox with procmail? As I understand it,
#_ #_ procmail only "filters" mail as it reaches a users mailbox. If it can,
#_ #_ please tell me.
#_ #_
#_ #_ Thank you..
#_ #_
#_ #_ Holden
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#_ Yes you can.
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#_ man formail.
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#_ cat existing_mailbox | formail +1 -ds procmail
#_
#_ or
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#_ cat existing_mailbox | formail +1 -ds | procmail
#_
#_
#_ HTH.
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Before trying this stunt, make a copy of your exixting mailbox, just in
case. ;->
If you are going to do this to ~/mbox; then cp ~/mbox ~/mbox.orig and
mv ~/mbox ~/boyoyoy then:
cat ~/boyoyoy | formail +1 -ds | procmail
HTH. some more.
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