On 01/24/2012 07:36 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > 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 . Ah, yes. I apologize for not reading that more comprehensively. You want "formail", a part of the procmail package. I think something like this: su <user> -c "formail -s procmail" < /var/spool/mail/<user>