On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:58:32PM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 01:43:16PM +1000, MacFarlane, Jarrod
>([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Jobst Schmalenbach [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> >
> > > That depends on your setup. If you have sendmail you
> > > could set an alias in the "aliases" file of your system,
> > > depending of your version it will be located in /etc/mail
> > > if sendmail_version > 8.10 and in /etc if sendmail
> > > version <= 8.9.X:
> >
> > I realise this, the problem is moving "existing" email that has arrived
> > prior to alias creation.
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood.
>
> use mutt as root and start it up with "mutt -f filename" where
> the filename is the users box.
>
> then batch foward the whole lot to the users new address.
If you haven't used mutt before, that's T.* [return] to Tag
messages matching anything, then ;b destination address to
bounce all of the tagged messages to the target.
If the host that has the mailbox file is already running a pop3
or imap service, or you can start one manually, fetchmail is
also pretty good at this sort of thing. Just use the --smtphost
argument to tell it where to send the messages, rather than the
default (localhost).
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Andrew
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