On Wed, 09 Aug 2000 07:19:43 -0400 (EDT), Marshal Benton
<post_bote(_at_)post(_dot_)com> wrote:
==>MB| Can formail break the inbox into seperate messages?
==>MB| If so, what is the command line?
I found the -s option before posting. I read the man page.
Please, No RTFM, ARBD (AlReady Been Done).
Now, what follows -s?
I tried
format -s cat > '$FILENO' < inbox
AND
format -s cat > $FILENO < inbox
I got a file called $FILENO with the same
contents (one file with all the messages).
You are redirecting the output of formail. Formail calls up a
subprocess which prints to standard output; all this standard output
is being catenated back into one file by your use of redirection.
One fairly simple way to accomplish what you want is to write a small
shell script which saves to a file named after the value of FILENO,
and pass the path name of that as the argument to -s. Another is to
start Procmail with a simple rcfile, something like this:
SHELL=/bin/sh # always always always
:0
./
:0
oops
This will deliver each message into a new file, numbered starting with
the lowest available number; so if you happen to have a file called
./20001, you will get the messages in ./20002, ./20003, etc.
(In very concrete terms, if the above script is in ./split.rc, you
would say
formail -s procmail -m ./split.rc <inbox
You might want to turn on logging to see what's going on, too. I leave
that as an exercise. :-)
Actually it would be a good idea to set UMASK and LOGABSTRACT and
maybe also PATH if you want to call up external scripts, in addition
to SHELL. (LOGABSTRACT=yes with no LOGFILE= causes the log to be
written to standard error.)
Hope this helps,
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