Am 24. Jul, 2006 schwätzte Leslie Williams so:
> I have an imap server at home to handle my email. Here is how things
> normally work:
>
> fetchmail -> postfix -> procmail -> cyrus-imap -> thunderbird
>
> I made a typo when I was editing my ~/.procmailrc file, and as a result
> all emails that didn't get filtered before the typo got put into a
> single text file in my home directory.
mbox format :).
I believe Cyrus doesn't support mbox format. It's a sad, sad state.
> Any ideas on how I can get these emails back into imap? I've tried
> fiddling with both postfix and procmail as well as moving the file into
> thunderbird's local folders. So far nothing has worked.
You could copy the folder locally and have access to it as a local mbox
folder.
I presume that you'd like to have the messages get properly filtered via
procmail. If that's true look at formail.
The procmail manpage lists info on using the two together, as does the
formail manpage.
ciao,
der.hans
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