On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 17:03, Jason Rashaad Jackson wrote:
> OK.  I have successfully gotten procmail up and running on my local host, and 
> it's happily filtering incoming mail.  This is great for new stuff, but what 
> about all the old messages in my spoolfile that have piled (and piled and 
> piled) up while I've been fiddling with procmail?  Is there any way to 
> implicitly define a folder (mbox, whatever) for procmail to work it's magic 
> on?  Kinda like KDE's 'Run Rules Now' switch?  Any help, as always, would be 
> much appreciated.  Thanks!

In the procmail man page it mentions using procmail/formail to process a
populated mailbox with 'formail -s procmail < mailbox', of course I
would backup the mailbox first just in case.

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