get mutt to parse other mailbox

[Luke Vanderfluit]

Hi Cameron.

Thats absolutely fantastic! 
Thanks very very much for your help (-:
Kind regards.
Luke Vanderfluit.


05Dec2007 @ 16:58 Cameron Simpson said in an interview
> On 05Dec2007 10:36, Luke Vanderfluit <luke.vanderfluit at e3learning.com.au> wrote:
> > I know there's a few mutt users on this list so:
> >
> > Ive got a setup with mutt, procmail, fetchmail.
> > fetchmail -> procmail -> several mailboxes.
> >
> > While installing a new server, I inadvertently got fetchmail to
> > deposit the mail in another mailbox (I was running fethmail as root and it 
> > put stuff in the 'fetchmail' mailbox) and about 2 days worth of mail got 
> > deposited there without filtering.
> >
> > I now need to import that mail into mutt using the procmail filters to 
> > disperse among my regular mailboxes.
> >
> > Ive done this before so I know its possible but Ive forgotten how I
> > did it )-:
> 
> Approach 1, using only mutt (approach 2 lower down):
> 
> We're going to go filter 1, filter 2, filter several, filter them all
> progressively to ensure it's ok.
> 
> Open the folder:
> 
>   mutt -f +fetchmail
> 
> Filter the first message using your .procmailrc by typing:
> 
>   |procmail<enter>
> 
> (That's an [enter] key there.)
> 
> Check that the message got correctly filtered by examining your procmail log
> (if you use one) or examining the folder it should have landed in.
> 
> If the filtering went ok, delete that message ('d').
> 
> Make sure "pipe_split" is "yes" (it defaults to "no"):
> 
>   :set pipe_split=yes<enter>
> 
> Tag the top two messages ('tt').
> 
> Filter those two messages:
> 
>   ;|procmail<enter>
> 
> (note the ';' tag-prefix command!)
> 
> Check that both messages got correctly filtered. If pipe_split is
> set incorrectly they will have been sent as a single file to procmail,
> resulting in just one bogus message filing. You want each to
> go to its own procmail instance (by setting pipe_split to yes).
> 
> If that went ok, delete those two messages (';d').
> 
> Now tag several messages. ('ttttttttttt'). Repeat the test.
> 
> When confident, tag everything ('T.<enter>'). Then pipe to procmail:
> 
>   ;|procmail<enter>
> 
> Get a coffee and hope.
> 
> If all ok, delete them all (';d').
> 
>   =============================================================
> 
> Alternatively, make a maildir folder, copy all the messages into it,
> then run this shell loop:
> 
>   cd the-maildir-folder
>   for msg in new/* cur/*
>   do  ls -ld "$msg"             # progress reporting
>       procmail <"$msg" && rm "$msg"
>   done
> 
> Which filters each message then removes it if procmail was happy.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
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