Hi.

probably not the best list to ask, but i've been trying and searching
for awhile now, with not much success. I'm looking for a way to run
my procmail filters on a directory containing emails I would like to
filter. I'm using a Maildir email directory setup.

I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
format which I dont want.


anyone know any tutorial/howto out there? the procmail home page is no
help, and most of tutorials are for mailbox format.


Regards
Lee


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lee:
>
> I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
> format which I dont want.

Formail doesn't actually save the mailboxes anywhere, procmail does
that. And if you append a slash to the mailbox name, procmail generates
maildirs. Example:

MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log
DEFAULT=$MAILDIR

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* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-/[-a-zA-Z0-9]+
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You can run procmail in "filter mode" and pipe it each mail that you wish to
filter individually, but you must keep track of which mails have been piped to
procmail and remove them/mark them 'processed' yourself, via shell scripts etc.

Make sure your procmail recipe(s) deliver to a sensible location.


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lee wrote:
> I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
> format which I dont want.

With Maildir format you don't need formail. Just pipe each individual
message to procmail.

Of the top of my head and untested:

for m in Maildir/new/* Maildir/cur/*; do
procmail myprocmailrcfile < $m
done

Best to test it with one message first to make sure it all works
before trying to run on a large mailbox.

Bob

On 07/05/2012 02:41 PM, Jon Dowland wrote:
> You can run procmail in "filter mode" and pipe it each mail that you wish to
> filter individually, but you must keep track of which mails have been piped to
> procmail and remove them/mark them 'processed' yourself, via shell scripts etc.
>
> Make sure your procmail recipe(s) deliver to a sensible location.
>
>
Hi

thanks for the response.

L


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On 07/05/2012 09:59 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> lee wrote:
>> I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
>> format which I dont want.
> With Maildir format you don't need formail. Just pipe each individual
> message to procmail.
>
> Of the top of my head and untested:
>
> for m in Maildir/new/* Maildir/cur/*; do
> procmail myprocmailrcfile < $m
> done
>
> Best to test it with one message first to make sure it all works
> before trying to run on a large mailbox.
>
> Bob
Hi

I did something similar but ended up creating alot of 'copies' which I
didn't want. but thanks. now I at least know
I was on the right track.

Regards
Lee


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On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 11:14:57AM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote:
> lee:
> >
> > I've looked at formail + procmail , but formail forces it into mailbox
> > format which I dont want.
>
> Formail doesn't actually save the mailboxes anywhere, procmail does
> that. And if you append a slash to the mailbox name, procmail generates
> maildirs. Example:
>
> MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
> LOGFILE=$HOME/.procmail.log
> DEFAULT=$MAILDIR
>
> :0:
^
In that case you don't need the colon. That colon is for locking and
maildir doesn't require locking.
e.g.

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