Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 11:56:33 +0930 From: Shaun Branden <shaun@pcuse.com> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I filer Email or mbox File? Message-ID: <20010820115632.A21394@dingoblue.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20010711113051.S16127-100000@localhost>; from bear@buug.homeip.net on Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0700 References: <20010711113051.S16127-100000@localhost>
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:41:34AM -0700, Joseph Garcia wrote:
> 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?
From the procmail FAQ:
Q: I have a recipe which I would like to run on many messages which are
already in one big happy mailbox file. How can
I tell Procmail to not treat them all as a single long message?
A: You don't, you use formail to split it it back into separate messages
and feed each into its own little procmail
process.
formail -ns procmail experiments.rc < test.mbox
(This will use the recipes in the rc file experiments.rc.)
Shaun
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