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

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, William O'Higgins wrote:

> Yes, that's where the attempts above come from.  These recipies seem to
> be based on getting processed via procmail, and I am trying to get an
> mbox file *into* procmail.  I tried "cat /var/mail/$USER | formail -ds
> procmail", but I get the same result - the command starts, but doesn't
> do anything and needs to be Ctrl-C'd.  So, the problem remains - what

Sounds like a STDIN problem to me...

> syntax is required to get the individual messages in my spool to be
> processed by procmail?  Thanks again.

Here is a working example I put together a few months back:

cat ./inbox | formail -s procmail ~foouser/etc/procmail.incoming

No the username is not really foouser but I'm not handing out real
username info (even if the box is hidden behind several firewalls :)

Rob

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