"late" forwarding of email

#1 09-03-2008, 09:45 AM

Email for fbloggs@here.com gets delivered to a sendmail server into
file /var/mail/fbloggs.

How could I send all mail in /var/mail/fbloggs to fbloggs@there.com
subsequently?

i.e. the mail has already arrived and its too late to set up
any .forwards etc.

TIA

ian

#2 09-03-2008, 12:35 PM

In article <9911bdd3-e2cb-4a9d-ac2d-08e06bcdbcea@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>,
didds <didds2@excite.com> wrote:
>Email for fbloggs@here.com gets delivered to a sendmail server into
>file /var/mail/fbloggs.
>
>How could I send all mail in /var/mail/fbloggs to fbloggs@there.com
>subsequently?
>
>i.e. the mail has already arrived and its too late to set up
>any .forwards etc.

for example with mutt something like this:

# Tag all messages:
T.
# bounce all messages to new mail-address:
;b fbloggs@there.com

regards

winfried

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#3 09-03-2008, 01:16 PM

On 09/03/08 08:45, didds wrote:
> Email for fbloggs@here.com gets delivered to a sendmail server into
> file /var/mail/fbloggs.
>
> How could I send all mail in /var/mail/fbloggs to fbloggs@there.com
> subsequently?
>
> i.e. the mail has already arrived and its too late to set up
> any .forwards etc.

Use formail to read each message out of the file individually and
re-send them (via mail or Sendmail) to the new address.

Literally the command will be something like (I'm running on 2 hours
sleep so read the man page(s) to be sure.)

formail <some flag(s)> /var/mail/fbloggs | mail <optional flag(s)>
fbloggs@there.com

Grant. . . .

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