Re-running the exim filter in .forward on the INBOX of ~/Maildir
 

Say I've just added a new rule in my exim filter (found in ~/.forward), how do I run it over my old emails in the INBOX of ~/Maildir

Cheers,

AFAIK basically you don't, at least not that way. You see mail targeted for local delivery runs through the local delivery agent (or LDA) which respects ~/.forward files and then gets delivered (or not ;-p). It's a one time action. So IMHO there's two ways around this: either use a mail client (or MUA) to filter or copy INBOX and then rerun that mail through a formail|procmail recipe?..


//NTLB