Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

["Cameron L. Spitzer" <cls@truffula.sj.ca.us>]

In article <7UZq3-3VA-13@gated-at.bofh.it>, 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
> /tmp/November
>
> 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.


> 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.



Cameron