[Gllug] Procmail

[Martin Stevens]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 05:48:59PM +0100, Richard Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Martin Stevens wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've finally got around to setting up procmail, but I have a stack of
> > mail in my mbox, can anyone tell me a recipie to retroactively run
> > procmail on my mbox to sort the mail according to the rules I've
> > set-up in procmail.
> 
> >From the procmail man page (try reading before posting?):

I did, and found this as well, however it doesn't look like it will
do what I want it to, I use mutt and I have about 2000 mails that 
have been moved to /home/budgester/mbox, therefore are no longer in the 
system spool. As for shell scripting I'm still learning and the bit in the script below sending stuff to /dev/null scared the willy's out of me. 

Back to ploughing through the reams of docs that is man procmail.

>               #!/bin/sh
> 
>               ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME
> 
>               if cd $HOME &&
>                test -s $ORGMAIL &&
>                lockfile -r0 -l1024 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null
>               then
>                 trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 13 15
>                 umask 077
>                 lockfile -l1024 -ml
>                 cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail &&
>                  cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL
>                 lockfile -mu
>                 formail -s procmail <.newmail &&
>                  rm -f .newmail
>                 rm -f .newmail.lock
>               fi
>               exit 0
> 
> Adapt to your own circumstances...

I'm gonna try and understand what this script actually does before I run it.

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