On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
A very large file in
/var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
That would be the default delivery.
Your procmail file should end with this
:0
/dev/null
to prevent that.
Won't that lose mail if any recipe fails?
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On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:58:32PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
A very large file in
/var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
That would be the default delivery.
Your procmail file should end with this
:0
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote:
A very large file in
/var/mail was created instead. Any idea?
That would be the default delivery.
Your
The expected file /tmp/November didn't create.
Maybe Procmail won't deliver in /tmp because everybody
can read and write there.
Maybe ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006
doesn't match anything in the mail.
Test that with egrep.
Now I change the rcfile as:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat rcfile
:0:
*
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yuwen Dai wrote:
Now I move both Inbox and the expected result to my home dir. But command
$ formail -s Inbox |procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile
Should be
$ formail -s procmail /home/yuwen/rcfile Inbox
No
$ formail -s mboxfile | procmail recipefile
recipefile looks like this:
:0:
* ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006
/home/me/December
:0:
* ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Nov 2006
/home/me/November
Hello Cameron,
I created a similiar rc file like this:
:0:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Yuwen Dai wrote:
[I wrote]
$ formail -s mboxfile | procmail recipefile
recipefile looks like this:
:0:
* ^Received: .* myserver.example.net ;.* Dec 2006
/home/me/December
I created a similiar rc file like this:
:0:
* ^Received: .*;.*Nov 2006
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
Yuwen Dai wrote:
I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the
backup quick in
Dear all,
I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup
quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion?
I once backuped the whole inbox on a CD-ROM, and set the local directory
on the
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On 03/02/07 02:29, Yuwen Dai wrote:
Dear all,
I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the backup
quick in thunderbird if need. What's your
apt-cache search archive mail|sort brings up, among other things:
archivemail - archive and compress your old email
archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl
These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to restore
and read them back in thundbird.
Yuwen Dai wrote:
apt-cache search archive mail|sort brings up, among other things:
archivemail - archive and compress your old email
archmbox - a simple email archiver written in perl
These utilities are OK. But I think the point is, it's difficult to
restore and read them back in
Yuwen Dai wrote:
I'd like to backup part of my Inbox, e.g., the emails of last year as my
Inbox becomes larger and larger. I also want to restore and read the
backup quick in thunderbird if need. What's your suggestion?
How about creating a new folder, e.g., Inbox-2005. Then move all mails
to
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