On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Ira Abramov wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 17:00:21 +0200 (IST) > From: Ira Abramov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: the linux-il mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: forward on command line > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Tal Amir wrote: > > > ira, > > > > the mail is already in that mailbox. > > i now setted it up (or at least tried to) to forward all its messages to > > external email mailboxes. > > like Adi says, fetchmail can suck via pop3 all the mail from that "mail > only account", and send it elsewhere for you (or leave you an mbox file > I suppose). this is what it does. > > > problem 1 : niether .forward or .forwardfc forwards the mail (exsisting or > > new messages) > > ofcourse it won't forward mail, it's a conf file. not a program. > sendmail looks at it during delivery into the user's $HOME. if you are > talking about a mail-only account, it probably HAS no home to speak of, > or stick a .forward into, and .forward will certainly not cause sendmail > to retroactively read mail BACK from an mbox and re-route it. for that > you use formail or fetchmail (or Maildir2smtp if you use sane mail > servers)
even as a regular account, .forward in the home directory does not work. > > > problem 2 : i went through fetchmail's man page and could not find an > > option to forward those messages. > > if at first you don't succeed, read read again. > > I would suck it into an mbox, view it with PINE, tag all messages, and > Apply "bounce" to a new Email address. does an excellent job. I bet mutt > will provide a similar feature. what good will bouncing do ? what if i want to forward everything in that mailbox to several external addresses ? > > > what i am looking for is somethig like /usr/lib/sendmail -q when you want > > to force queue delivery. this is what i want this mailbox to do. (well, > > kind of..if you get the point..) > > if the above still doesn't help, your setup is more complicated than > what you describe maybe, so describe it, please. > > -- ----------------------------------- _|_|_ Best Regard's , ( ) * Amir Tal, /v\ / System Administrator /( )X (m_m) | | ICQ : 15748705 | (_)_ __ | | | '_ \| | | \ \/ / | | | | | | |_| |> < |_)_|_|_| |_|__,_/_/\ http://whatsup.homelinux.com ----------------------------------- ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
