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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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