From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 8 11:55:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA11793 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:55:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA11782 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 11:55:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.10] (user10.dataplex.net [208.2.87.10]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA10012; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:54:53 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <19980708113034.B8731@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:53:08 -0500 To: obrien@NUXI.com From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: manually using procmail Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 1:30 PM -0500 7/8/98, David O'Brien wrote: >Does anybody know if a way to take a Berkeley mailbox-formated file and >"pipe" it thru procmail so that it would be processed as if you received >the mail the usual way? > >As long as Hub isn't allowing POPing, getting FreeBSD mail is painful; >but would be if I could just copy hub:/var/mail/obrien to my local >machine and have it procmail processed. > >I've tried ``cat obrien | procmail -Yf-'', but it treats the mbox as a >single giant message. Off the top of my head, I think you need "formail". In any case, there was a description of just this sort of thing in the documentation that came with the package. Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message