Paul O. Bartlett writes on 17 August 1996 at 07:56:23
[...]
it when I looked back at man procmail, but for future reference, is
there some way to run procmail from the command line to clear up the
backlog in the queue and distribute the mail as it would have been
Here's a "post_process_procmail" shell script; swiped from a posting
to the list from long ago.
#!/bin/sh
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin; export PATH
umask 077
lockfile -l3600 $HOME/.newmail.lock
lockfile -l3600 -ml
cat /usr/mail/$LOGNAME >>$HOME/.newmail &&
cat /dev/null >/usr/mail/$LOGNAME
lockfile -mu
formail -s procmail <$HOME/.newmail
rm -f $HOME/.newmail $HOME/.newmail.lock
exit 0
Dan
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