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Date:      Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:48:16 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Craig Critchley <craigc@fuzzer.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Forwarding mailbox contents
Message-ID:  <20000819114816.Q28027@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000819142235.H58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>; from ben@FreeBSD.org on Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:22:35PM %2B0100
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On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:22:35PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Crist J . Clark wrote:
> 
> > Do you have procmail installed? Then just,
> > 
> >   # formail -s sendmail -t < /var/mail/user
> 
> uh, I _really wouldn't_ use sendmail -t since if he's on any mailing
> lists, you'll really make a mess.  Unless this means something
> different here, I'm not familiar with formail.  I just use a little
> program I wrote called 'split-mail' (may have been 'mail-split',
> I can't remember) to do this sort of thing.  It's available at
> <http://www.scientia.demon.co.uk/users/ben/software/mail/>; but it's
> rather kludgy in places.

Excellent point. This would be better,

  # formail -s sendmail user@newdom.com < /var/mail/user

To redirect each message to only the new address. (Or even 'user'
alone would work if the alias to the new address is all set up.)
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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