topic Re: send emails already in /var/mail/ in Operating System - Linux

send emails already in /var/mail/

leonardo bianchi quota — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:05:55 GMT

Hi! How can I send all the email (n??30) arrived in my mbox /var/mail/mymbox on a RH7.2 to a specific address of another domain?

Bye!

Leo.

Re: send emails already in /var/mail/

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:24:50 GMT

try this

mailq

lists mail in the que but not delivered.

if there are listings

sendmail -q

as root

This will send them if they are queued.

P

Re: send emails already in /var/mail/

Stuart Browne — Wed, 22 Jan 2003 22:31:32 GMT

Given that you've already received the mail, you would need to use an MUA to 'forward' the message to another recipient, unless you had the ability just to 'copy' the mail folders whole.

Failing that, you'd have to manually break open the mail box, create your envelopes, and then forward them directly into your MTA (sendmail).

How far do you want to take this?

Re: send emails already in /var/mail/

leonardo bianchi quota — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 10:17:41 GMT

Well, I'm thinking about three steps to follow:
First: split text in mbox
Two: rewrite "From" (I think with formail)
Three: send file in mbox format.

For Step three I attach a file I would like to be sent (piping to a MUA....)

Re: send emails already in /var/mail/

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 13:25:50 GMT

see attached letter

Re: send emails already in /var/mail/

leonardo bianchi quota — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 17:08:40 GMT

Thanks a lot Mr. Karasik. It's really great. images, attachments, everything.

when I launched it:#fwd /var/mail/mbox:mailaddress --> it was perfect. Infact it's not a pure forward with the original mail attached, but the mailaddress receive the mail as it was for him. Opening the msg you see the original header and message.

p.s. to get the message I changed the link as follow: http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/components/FileAttachment/0,,0xe5155bd3782dd711abdc0090277a778c,00.zip and after download I changed the extention from .zip to .msg; After I had problems unpacking the archive but this was due to my personal "problems" :-))