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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:15:15 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Ankerst=E5l?= <peter@pean.org>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?= <wodfer@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my address?
Message-ID:  <46304373.6060907@pean.org>
In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80704250211l16756f5dkab26503c0f66e2a2@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <23ed14b80704250211l16756f5dkab26503c0f66e2a2@mail.gmail.com>

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Andreas Widerĝe Andersen wrote:
> Hi,
> On one of my FreeBSD servers all system emails to root is stored in the 
> root
> mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have updated my alias file so new mail is
> forwarded to one of my email adresses, but is there a simple way for me to
> send all these old mails in root's mailbox to my email address without
> logging in through pop3/imap?
> 
> A command line trick would be perfect.
I think you could just use the .forward file.
read about it in forward(5)



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