Have there been duplicates? I suppose that you first need to move your mailfile /var/spool/mail/my_account to your $HOME and then start formail/procmail as procmail appends the mails while cat reads them again and again?!
Alex. On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi all, > I am very confused. please help. I am trying to filt my current > mail to different folders. > > cat /var/spool/mail/my_account | formail -s procmail. > > All of sudden, it filts out over 5000 thousands emails to my > account. The file size changed from 500K to 20MB. Some of those mails were > even from last yr....
