OT - How to test procmail on existing mailbox

[Todd Zullinger]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I want to use fetchmail and procmail to download and sort my email.
> I am  in the initial testing phase. I've downloaded a bunch of mail
> to my system mailbox with fetchmail. I have written some recipes for
> procmail.  Can I get procmail to run against the mail already
> downloaded in /var/spool/mail/andrew? If so, how?

Something like 'formail -s procmail < /path/to/mailbox' is close to
what you are looking for.

The procmail manpage has a more detailed example in the Notes section.

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