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

[G. Matthew Rice]

William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> writes:
> 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?

Have you looked at the examples in the formail manpage?  Read up on the -s
option.

Regards,
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