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Re: processing inbox maildirs with formail

2007-08-27 10:58:17

On 27-Aug-2007, at 08:53, M. Fioretti wrote:

cd /the/maildir/base/directory/
for file in cur/*
  do
  /usr/bin/formail -s /usr/bin/procmail -m test/rcfile.rc < $file

Erm, have you read the man page for formail?


DESCRIPTION
        formail is a filter that can be used to force mail into  
mailbox format,
        perform `From ' escaping, generate  auto-replying  headers,   
do  simple
        header  munging/extracting  or split up a mailbox/digest/ 
articles file.
        The mail/mailbox/article contents will be expected on stdin.

and

        -s   The input will be split up into separate mail messages,  
and  piped
             into  a  program  one  by  one...

What exactly do you think you're using formail for and more  
specifically, even if you did use formail, why would you use -s?

You don't have mailboxes.  formail doesn't apply.

   /usr/bin/procmail -m tes/rcfile.rc < $file

should do nicely

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