You have a mailbox you need to sort. You can't have it come back through your MTA, of course. Use this script to push it through the procmail filter of your choice:
#!/bin/sh ORGMAIL=/var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME if cd $HOME && test -s $ORGMAIL && lockfile -r0 -l3600 .newmail.lock 2>/dev/null then trap "rm -f .newmail.lock" 1 2 3 15 umask 077 lockfile -l3600 -ml cat $ORGMAIL >>.newmail && cat /dev/null >$ORGMAIL lockfile -mu formail -s procmail <.newmail && rm -f .newmail rm -f .newmail.lock fi exit 0
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