Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:15:02 +0000 From: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com> To: David Banning <david+dated+1165338313.d83636@skytracker.ca> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on batch email sending Message-ID: <456F1196.3010607@thingy.com> In-Reply-To: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> References: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca>
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David Banning wrote: > I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able > to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an > attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like; > > cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram franksnewaddress@franksdomain.com > > So that Frank can just get it into his regular inbox. I realize that > I could just ask Frank to pop it off the server but then he would have > to setup for just one occasion. Is there a way to do what I want? > Take a look at formail, which comes as part of procmail. It lets you iterate through messages in an mbox-formatted mailbox in various ways. In fact, here's a thread about it: http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/procmail/2002-06/msg00019.html Have fun! Howie
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