On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
OK, I assume there was something wrong with my sendmail/procmail setup, so that all mail went to /var/spool/mail/~ .
The fact remains that I want to filter this email as I would if it were arriving from outside.
I installed mutt on the new server, and found that 95% of the messages in /var/spool/mail were basically locally sent error messages.
But about 40 messages remain.
To repeat my original query:
Now I'm wondering if there is some way that I can re-direct the mail in /var/spool/mail/<mymbox> so that it goes through the system as though it were just arriving? I mean, so that it gets distributed into the correct folders under ~/Maildir , as specified in .procmailrc .
Any suggestions gratefully received.
Any imap client can move mail between folders, whether local or on different hosts/accounts. Connect with one, move the existing messages somewhere else (a local client folder if you don't have another imap account where you can make a folder to park them), then reconfigure your procmail and dovecot to use maildir format, and move them back. With a GUI mail agent this is normally a select/drag/drop operation. Not sure how/if you can do it in mutt.