Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:05:39 -0700 From: Josef Grosch <jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com> To: obrien@NUXI.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: manually using procmail Message-ID: <19980708120539.A15241@mooseriver.com> In-Reply-To: <19980708113034.B8731@nuxi.com>; from David O'Brien on Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:30:34AM -0700 References: <19980708113034.B8731@nuxi.com>
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On Wed, Jul 08, 1998 at 11:30:34AM -0700, 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.
>
Yes, this is how I get my mail from Best. The magic incantation is
formail -s procmail < mail_file
If interested I can provide the Perl script I use to grab my mail.
Josef
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