At 1149817191 past the epoch, mlaks wrote: > How do I run procmail on [a Maildir] to separate out the > files to other subdirectories. ... > the crucial line is formail -s procmail <.newmail &&
the -s flag to formail splits the input up into seperate mail messages and invokes the selected program (here, procmail) with each message piped into a separate invocation. As Maildir already has one file per message, all you need to do is invoke procmail once per mail message. Something like the following shell: find $YOURMAILDIR/{cur,new} -type f | while read file; do procmail < $file done Note that you probably want to be absolutely sure that procmail doesn't put its output into the maildir you are reading as input. If you want to run this periodically and don't want to send a message to procmail more than once, just move or delete the file once it has been piped to procmail, like this: for dir in cur new; do find $INPUTMAILDIR/$dir -type f | while read file; do procmail < $file mv $file $PROCESSED/$dir # or: rm $file done done For suitable values of $INPUTMAILDIR, $PROCESSED. -- Jon Dowland http://alcopop.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]