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From: GH <grasshacker@over-yonder.net>
To: Joseph Garcia <bear@buug.homeip.net>
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Subject: Re: How do I filer Email or mbox File?
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0700, some SMTP stream spewed forth: 
> Hey all!
> 
> I have been using procmail to filter my incoming email using some rules
> that I found on www.freebsddiary.org website.  So far the rules work
> perfectly for incoming mail.  Although, I have email in my mbox file that
> I want certain email extracted and put into a specific folder.  I thought
> that maybe creating the rule in my .procmailrc and cat'ing the mbox file
> through procmail would do the trick, but it didn't.  So what would be the
> right way to filter out the email from my box file into another file?
> 

Check the man page for procmail.

formail -s procmail < mbox

> TIA,
> 
> Joey

gh
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