Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 00:05:14 -0500 From: Jack Barnett <jackbarnett@gmail.com> To: jackbarnett@gmail.com Cc: Freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Procmail/processing question Message-ID: <47280D0A.2050404@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <47280561.4020803@gmail.com> References: <47280561.4020803@gmail.com>
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Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> Procmail is working, but during a system upgrade I basically broke it
> for a bit.
>
> While it was down, all the mail was being collected in
> /var/mail/[username]
>
> Normally, it processes incoming mail and puts it in
> /home/[username]/Maildir/XYZ (this is what courier imap is using).
>
> It is working and processing mail as normal; but the problem is that
> /var/mail/[username] has collected tons of mail that needs to be
> "processed" via procmail.
> Is there a way I can pipe all this mail into procmail so that it'll be
> "processed" like normal.
>
> I'm thinking something like "cat /var/mail/[username] | procmail
> -SomeFancyOption"
>
> thoughts?
>
>
>
disregard, I figured it out. there is a program called 'formail'
(format mail)
cat /var/mail/[username] | formail -s procmail
:)
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