you need to pipe it through formail, not procmail directly.
%> cp /var/spool/mail/yourlogin newmail
%> cat newmail | formail -t -s procmail -f-
Formail splits the spool file into individual messages and pipes each of
them through procmail.
On Tue, 9 May 2000, W. Mark Herrick, Jr. wrote:
I accidentally left my home directory mode 777 (don't ask), so
sendmail/procmail didn't trust the rc and wouldn't filter using the
.procmailrc in my home dir...
Now I'm got a large spool file in my /var/spool/mail mailbox, and I'd like
to re-filter it, but can't exactly figure out how...
I tried doing "cat file |exec /usr/bin/procmail" (as the owner of the
file), but procmail didn't process all 200-some messages contained in the
file, only the 1st message...
Any help appreciated.
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