On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:36 AM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com