Re: Procmail: re-sort all messages

["Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Fri, May  7 at 15:38, Alexander Batischev penned:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed fetchmail ??? procmail ??? mutt ??? msmtp chain
> and want to configure procmail properly. Of course, I can't write
> all the rules in the right way from scratch, so there must be some
> testing. The only way to check how rules works is actually run
> procmail and see what happens. Here is where problems starts.
> 

This doesn't answer your direct question, but my first procmail rule
copies the message to an archive mailbox.  That way if I screw up the
later rules, I can still see the original message.

My rule for this is:

	:0 c:
	$HOME/mail/archive/backup

(backup is in mbox format)

I also have this at the top to see what procmail's doing:

	LOGFILE=$HOME/log/procmail.log
	#add a line between each entry for readability
	LOG="
	"
	#applies to log
	VERBOSE=yes

I use logrotate to trim both the backup mailbox and the procmail log
file.


-- 
monique