Re: i hate procmail

From: Anthony E. Greene (agreene_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/28/03

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Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 22:35:24 -0400

    On 26-Sep-2003/14:57 -0500, christopher j bottaro <cjb@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
    >
    >well when i do it like that, the commands are "typed" so fast that it
    >basically ends up messing up and sending the wrong messages to the wrong
    >mailboxes.
    >
    >any other ideas? =(

    Use formail to split the spool into the one-by-one messages that procmail
    expects:

      cat /var/spool/username | formail -s procmail

    After you're sure it worked you can empty the mail spool:

      cat /dev/null > /var/spool/username

    or copy it somewhere for safe keeping then empty it:

      cat /var/spool/username | gzip - >> ~/mail_archive.gz
      cat /dev/null > /var/spool/username
      

    Tony 

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