Re: Filtering an existing mbox with procmail
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:33:51PM +0200, Alexandre Neubert wrote:
> Hello List,
>
> I have a problem regarding procmail. I use mutt and fetchmail (which I set
> up using advises from this list :)) to retrieve my email from gmail. It
> works fine and I have several filters on procmail to order my mail in
> several folders.
> If I use procmail while retrieving my mail, filtering works fine. But I also
> have a mailbox which has already several hundred messages I want to sort
> using the filters from procmail.
> Here is the problem: I did'nt find a way to launch procmail on an existing
> filled mailbox when not retriving the mail at the same time.
>
> I looked into options and man pages, but this option does not seem to exist.
>
> In clear, I want be able to make something like:
> procmail .procmail/debian-list.rc Mail/inbox
>
> where debian-list;rc is the filter rule and inbox the inbox on which to
> apply the filter.
>
> Is that even possible using procmail? If yes, what options do I have to use?
>
Thats what formail is for. You probably want something like `formail -s
procmail <Mail/inbox'. The -s stands for split. Formail calls procmail
for each individual message.
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