running procmail on the contents of /var/mail/$USER

[William O'Higgins]

I recently had a hardware problem that caused a week's downtime, and
when I first got up and running procmail was not set up, but fetchmail
was.  The result is that I have a few hundred messages in
/var/mail/$USER, none of which have been filtered through procmail,
spamassassin, or razor.  I want to run the whole spoolfile through
procmail, but I can't figure out how.

I was looking at formail, and tried things like "formail +1 -ds
procmail" and "formail -ds < /var/mail/$USER > procmail", but that
didn't work.  Does anyone know the syntax of this kind of thing?
Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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