Re: Pipe a whole mail box to a filter

[James Mason <james.mason@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried that command from command line (I assumed i wasnt supposed to do
it while using mutt), and all hell has broken loose. Specificaly, I now
have duplicates (30 or 40 duplicates) of each email.  There would have
been more, but i ctrl-c'd the command when I realised what was happening.
So, next question, is there a way to remove duplicate emails?

Thanks
James


On 13:26 Fri 22 Jul     , Hendrik Mangels wrote:
> James Mason (2005-07-22, 12:11):
> > I use procmail to filter mail to different mail boxes.  I
> > would like to change one or two of my rules, and would like
> > those changes to filter mail that has allready been received.
> > The only way I can think to do this is to pipe each message to
> > procmail in turn. This would be very labourous. Is there a way
> > to pipe the entire contents of a mailbox to procmail (or any
> > other filter for that matter), or am I stuck doing it by hand.
> 
> formail -s procmail < mbox
> 
> Hendrik