Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

[Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com>]

Florian Friesdorf <42ff@gmx.net> writes:

> > for i in `ls`; do
> >   echo -n "$i: ";
> >   procmail < $i && rm $i;
> >   echo "done.";
> > done
> 
> I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine.
> 
> (for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; echo "done."; done) > ../log 2>&1 &

Not to say that this is the cause of slowness, but you may still want
to change the `ls` to *.  This will save running ls, and opening and
closing a pipe:

for i in *; do
...
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Arcady Genkin
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