Gordon Messmer wrote: >> I've been running dovecot on a CentOS-5.7 server. >> Now I'm moving over to another server running CentOS-6.2. >> I thought I was running dovecot on the new server, >> but in fact there was an error during the setup, >> with the result that incoming mail finished up in/var/spool/mail/ >> rather than in ~/Maildir , where I wanted it to go. > > Dovecot isn't your MTA. You also need to duplicate your > sendmail/postfix service on the new host. 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. ---------------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin