Subject: more on Jeremy Mathers's question

From: [email-masked] (David W. Tamkin)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 1995 16:14:00 -0600 (CST)

It just occurred to me that formail already has a built-in cure for the
loop problem I was discussing.

If you know how many letters there are in the folder (frm -S can tell you,
for example),

  formail -[number] -s procmail < mySavedMail

will make formail -s stop after reading in [number] messages.  For example,
if there are 12 messages,

  formail -12s procmail < mySavedMail 

should do the job.