[Wylug-help] Mail problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 26 Jan 2008, Smylers wrote:
> Anne Wilson writes:
> > ...  there are a lot of messages stuck in an mbox file in my home
> > directory.  It's quite a big file, so it would take me a very long
> > time to try to separate them and forward them to myself - if in fact
> > that's even possible.
>
> Remember that Procmail can be invoked manually as a user as well as
> being a component of mail delivery.  You should be able to write some
> recipes describing where you want which mail to be, then tell Procmail
> to use those recipes on that mbox.
>
> Personally I'd do this using mutt.  You can use mutt -f to open it on an
> arbitrary mbox, then you can use its powerful pattern matching to select
> and process mail matching abitrary criteria of your choice:
>
>   http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#patterns
>
> Use T to tag messages matching particular criteria, then ; to act on the
> currently tagged messages, for example ;s to specify somewhere to save
> them (if that somewhere is a maildir then Mutt will DTRT) or ;b to
> specify an alternative e-mail address to bounce them to.
>
> Quite possibly there are other mail clients which could also be used in
> this way.
>
Thanks to you and to Andrew.  Shaun's solution has given them all to me in a 
single Inbox.  I can sort through them by hand without any problem now.

Anne
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