On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:28:48AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to filter already received mails (in a maildir) through procmail. > My latest "approach" is executing > > for i in `ls`; do > echo -n "$i: "; > procmail < $i && rm $i; > echo "done."; > done > > in SomeMaildir/cur > > advantage: it is working > disadvantage: it is incredibly slow (5 seconds per mail) > > Does anybody know a better solution.
After hanging around in front of my computer, getting tired, watching the mails
drop into their folders, I backgrounded the script and a few seconds later all
my mails were filtered.
I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine.
(for i in `ls`; do echo -n "$i: "; procmail < $i && rm $i; echo "done."; done)
> ../log 2>&1 &
c'ya
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