Re: post-delivery mail filtering

[Oswald Buddenhagen <ob6@inf.tu-dresden.de>]

> I would like to be able to take an existing mail spool file (e.g.
> /var/spool/mail/USER) and pass it to slocal for processing.  If I simply
> do this...
> 
> cat MAILFILE | /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user USER
> 
> ...all the messages get interpreted as one big message (no surprise
> there, as slocal is designed to be run from .forward).  So, is there a
> way to split the mail file into individual messages and filter them
> through slocal?  Or perhaps there's a better tool for filtering in this
> manner.
> 
formail -s /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user USER <MAILFILE >NEWMAILFILE
should do the trick.

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