On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 10:13:48PM +0100, Morten O. Hansen wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to filter my old mail with procmail? I have created > filters for several mailing-lists (and they work), is it possible to > fitler my old mails in ~/Maildir according to these filters? > > Thanks, Hi Morten, ------------------------------------------ formail -s procmail < some_mail_box ------------------------------------------ will cause an mbox file to be processed by procmail. But there is one thing, you should move the mail to an external location so that you do not leave the old mail there, you will end up with 2 copies, one in the old place and one in the new place.
So: 1) move unclassified mail to a temporary location 2) processes it with some command like above cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
