also sprach Jason Rashaad Jackson (on Wed, 19 Sep 2001 05:03:41PM -0400): > OK. I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local > host, and it's happily filtering incoming mail. This is great for > new stuff, but what about all the old messages in my spoolfile that > have piled (and piled and piled) up while I've been fiddling with > procmail? Is there any way to implicitly define a folder (mbox, > whatever) for procmail to work it's magic on? Kinda like KDE's 'Run > Rules Now' switch? Any help, as always, would be much appreciated. > Thanks! first, please format your mail to 70 characters a line. second, assume you have a mailbox format file ~/mbox, then do formail -s procmail < ~/mbox and procmail will do its magic on every file. this works for mailbox only, for Maildir and the others, you have to go different routes... martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck -- this email was written on an os using the viral 'gpl' as it's license. please check with billy gates before continuing to read this message.
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