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Date:      Wed, 8 Jul 1998 13:53:08 -0500
From:      Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net>
To:        obrien@NUXI.com
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: manually using procmail
Message-ID:  <l03130300b1c9702c1c43@[208.2.87.10]>
In-Reply-To: <19980708113034.B8731@nuxi.com>

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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



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