Re: OT: procmail/formail magic (was: Re: [Evolution] Outlook PST Equivalent)

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 20:41 -0400, Vince LaMonica wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, guenther wrote:
>
> } A simple ;) command like this will feed the contents of large.mbox to
> } formail, which splits it up into single mails and calls procmail to
> } actually sort (well, process) the mails according to the
> } local-procmail.rc receipts:
> }
> } $ cat large.mbox | formail -s procmail ./local-procmail.rc
>
> I would not recommend using more resources than needed. Something that I
> do all the time that doesn't require the overhead of cat:
>
> formail -s procmail local-procmail.rc < large.mbox
>
> That should work a lot more efficiently and be a tad quicker as well.

Yeah, right -- the average post resolving an issue and even more
describing the facts in depth doesn't even get any quick response. And
if I post an off-topic working solution I get a correction about a small
improvement almost instantaneously. ;-)

Thanks Vince, point taken. :)

...guenther


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