[plug] FW: Rescanning your inbox

[McMeikan, Andrew]

cross-posted for the person that wanted to do this at last nights meeting.

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	era eriksson [SMTP:era at iki.fi]
> Sent:	Thursday, July 29, 1999 3:57 PM
> To:	Stephen Hill
> Cc:	procmail at informatik.rwth-aachen.de
> Subject:	Re: Rescanning your inbox
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 11:51:51 -0700 (PDT), Stephen Hill
> <nugrange at best.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Pete wrote:
>  >> Due to a few errors with my procmailrc file I have ended up with all 
>  >> my email in /var/spool/mail/plaven.
>  >> Is there anyway I can "rescan" that file to get the now working
>  >> receipes to toss the email into their respectful folders?
>  > In the procmail man page, towards the bottom, there is a nice
>  > script that does what I believe you want done:
> 
> It's not really necessary to go through all that, it's a useful script
> for completely hands-free operation but for the occasional "hand
> rescan", it's probably both simpler and better to just
> 
>     mv $MAIL temporary
>     formail -s procmail <temporary
> 
> If you're scared that moving $MAIL will break some things, you will
> need to lockfile -ml and copy, at which point the given script is
> worth revisiting, perhaps with the changes you mentioned.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
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