27 Jan
2004
27 Jan
'04
9:50 a.m.
I have users with large mailboxes (/var/spool/mail/$LOGIN).
They need a forward (/home/$LOGIN/.forward)
How can I re-process the stored e-mail such a way that it is forwarded
to their new e-mail address ?
I did it already with sendmail or procmail but I don't find out how
anymore.
Thank you.
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27 Jan
27 Jan
3:34 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 10:50:37AM +0100, Brent Frère wrote:
I have users with large mailboxes
(/var/spool/mail/$LOGIN).
They need a forward (/home/$LOGIN/.forward)
How can I re-process the stored e-mail such a way that
it is
forwarded to their new e-mail address ?
Run
formail /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f '<>'
newaddress@newdomain
Slightly more robust: Instead of an empty sender, use
<loop@yourdomain> (make sure your sendmail accepts this and doesn't
silently set it to $LOGIN@yourdomain), and read the mail sent to
loop@ to see if everything went well.
Alternatively, you could run
mutt -f /var/spool/mail/$LOGIN
T.
;bnewadress@newdomain
q
(Be sure to do something sensible with bounces in the mutt case)
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Lionel
3:48 p.m.
Hi,
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Brent Frère wrote:
<mode=evil>
just mail them their complete mbox as attachment
</mode>
More seriously, you might want to look at "formail" and concoct sth
with it.
Also, I found a variant using mutt:
$ mutt -f /var/spool/mail/yourmailbox
T # tag all mails in mailbox
; # apply operation to all tagged mail
b new-address # bounce/redirect mail to the new address
Greets & hth, Eric
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