[pm-h] mail processing after download

[rlharris at oplink.net]

Regrettably, I have about a gigabyte of unread mail on the pop3 server
of my isp.  I do not wish to lose these messages.  I would like to
download this backlog of messages to my desktop machine, and sort
through them over the holidays.

Also, I question whether the pop3 server allows such a large volume of
mail to be downloaded in a single batch.  But getmail has a download
limit feature which permits downloading messages in small batches.

In sorting through the backlog of mail, I would like to use a
combination of maildrop and a spam filter such as bmf.  I am running
Debian Linux.

I know how to use getmail to download mail to a maildir or mbox on the
desktop.  But I do NOT know how to pull messages one at a time from a
maildir or mbox on the desktop and feed them to a delivery agent such
as maildrop.  I would prefer to use maildir rather than mbox.

Would the Perl module Mail::Maildir be the proper choice for this
task?

RLH