Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:02:52 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjc@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@molemanarmy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reprocessing mail with procmail Message-ID: <20011206170252.K8975@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <86lmggui8n.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>; from freebsd@molemanarmy.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:54:48PM %2B0000 References: <86lmggui8n.fsf@pan.home.penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:54:48PM +0000, Wayne Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a batch of mail in /var/mail/user that I want to process
> into multiple mail boxes based on the To field.
[snip]
> Running
> procmail -d user < /var/mail/user
>
> just doubles the size of the file /var/mail/user
>
> Any ideas what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it ?
procmail(1) expects to get messages _one at a time._ It does not do
operations on whole mailboxes. However, a tool do do the splitting
comes with procmail(1) called formail(1). You want,
$ formail -s procmail -d user < /var/mail/user
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