Re: can procmail be bypassed?

Sure.  Pipe it to mhonarc.

For example, in any relevant Procmail rule such as

:0 c:
* ^Sender:.*dev-access-approval
  |/homed/asgilman/mhonarc/bin/mhonarc -add \
   -outdir /ftp/asgilman/public_html/dev-access/2 \
   -umask 022

What follows the <|> pipe symbol is essentially what you would
pipe it to.  Any command line that invokes mhonarc appropriately.

For more examples consult the FAQ at Earl's site and I believe
there are more worked examples at Erich's.

Al Gilman