Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:56:32 +0100
From: Colin Whittaker <grimnar@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To: Irish Linux Users Group <ilug@linux.ie>
Cc: Declan Grady <declan@redbrick.dcu.ie>
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Subject: [ILUG] Re: procmail rules

Declan Grady stated the following on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:56:34AM +0100 :

> Hi again folks,
> I'm trying to use procmail rules to split up my incoming mail into
> separate mailboxes, which seem to be working.
> My problem is I want to apply these rules to the mail aready in one mailbox.
> Tell me there is any easy way ?

mv mailbox mailbox.input
formail -s procmail  < mailbox.input

formail will split the mailbox into seperate mails and then pass them
into the programm specified after the -s, in this case procmail

Colin
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