At 22:30 2001-12-10 -0700, C. Porter Bassett wrote:
mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
I cannot figure out what the purpose of the -d %T is. If I leave off
those flags, it still works, but each email is missing a few key lines,
without which mail readers such as mutt or pine can't read them.
I suggest you try reading the man pages, starting with the rather
appropriate 'man procmail'.
These are the lines that don't get put in without the -p %T:
-p or -d, which is it? I doubt it is -p.
Also, can you use procmail to filter an already existing mailfile?
See 'man procmail' or read the FAQs linked from <http://www.procmail.org>.
As a simple case, I set my .procmailrc to do nothing but put all messages
into my inbox. I try to run
$ cat mailfile | procmail
but it interprets the entire mailfile as one long email,
This is well covered in the manpage (there's a whole recipe shown in it
"Procmail can also be invoked to postprocess an already filled system
mailbox").
Hint: procmail expects ONE message on the input. If you're handing it a
mailbox, you need to use formail to SPLIT it:
formail -s procmail -m somercfile < mailfile
In any event, if the rcfile shouldn't OUTPUT to the mailfile you're using
for input - move the file first.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
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