Re: [MLUG] procmail processing of existing mbox file?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Mark Rages wrote:

> On 7/7/05, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> > I believe that it is possible for procmail to process and sort messages 
> > extracted from an existing mbox file.  What's the trick to that?  Do I 
> > have to send the mail to procmail using some program?  Or can procmail 
> > just read the file?  Thanks in advance.
>
> I'm not sure if you have to for procmail, but you can use formail(1) to 
> split up the mbox.


Ah hah!  I think that's what I'm looking for.  From the man page:

     -s   The input will be split up into separate mail messages,
          and  piped  into a program one by one (a new program is
          started for every part).  -s has to be the last  option
          specified,  the first argument following it is expected
          to be the name of a program, any other  arguments  will
          be  passed  along to it.  If you omit the program, then
          formail will simply concatenate the splitted  mails  on
          stdout again.  See FILENO.

Thanks, Mark!!

Mike
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