Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 11:24:25 -0800 From: Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> To: "Riley J. McIntire" <rjmcintire@earthlink.net> Cc: James Housley <jim@thehousleys.net>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Forwarding a mail file Message-ID: <20010302112425.A20578@wopr.caltech.edu> In-Reply-To: <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPCEOIFFAA.rjmcintire@earthlink.net>; from rjmcintire@earthlink.net on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:55:45AM -0800 References: <3A9FE718.8DF913C4@thehousleys.net> <NCBBLBILEPCHLFJAPIIPCEOIFFAA.rjmcintire@earthlink.net>
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On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 10:55:45AM -0800, Riley J. McIntire wrote: > I have a user with a large mail file, /var/mail/user, that does not use the > account. I need to send all this mail to her isp mail account before I > delete her. Doing each piece manually is tedious, as is walking her through > setting up a temporary pop3 account on her single _phone_ line. I'll try to offer a solution before you have to explain yourself a third time. (I feel your pain.) Install formail, which comes with procmail (/usr/ports/mail/procmail). It has to ability to split up a mail spool and pipe each message to a command: formail -s command < /var/spool/foo splits up foo into single messages, and pipes each to command. So I think you can do what you want with: formail -s sendmail -oi her@new.email.address < /var/mail/her_old_spool I tested essentially the same thing with my mail spool and another account of mine. -- Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon. http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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