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Re: using procmail on old mail

2001-07-04 09:21:30
Marcel asked,

| I'd like to use procmail to filter my old mail (approx. 3700 in
| Courier-IMAP-Maildir) in folders.
| 
| How do I do that? All mail reside in "Maildir/cur"...

In sh or any sh-based shell,

 for message in Maildir/cur/*
  # if you want to rm the originals, remove the '#' in the next line
  do procmail < $message # && rm $message
 done

or the equivalent syntax in a csh-based shell.

Because the shell will expand the wildcard before invoking procmail on the
files with individual messages, the usual loop cautions about doing this on
an mbox don't apply.

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