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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:56:19 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Craig Critchley <craigc@fuzzer.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Forwarding mailbox contents
Message-ID:  <20000818115619.S4854@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <0a1801c00944$f4295730$0201010a@craigc>; from craigc@fuzzer.com on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:48:52AM -0700
References:  <0a1801c00944$f4295730$0201010a@craigc>

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* Craig Critchley <craigc@fuzzer.com> [000818 11:37] wrote:
> I have a local user who has gone away.  I'll be forwarding his mail to a new
> account (no problem there) but I also want to forward any messages currently
> sitting in his mailbox.  Is there an easy way I (as root) can do that
> without logging on to his account and manually forwarding each of his old
> messages?
> 
> This is on FreeBSD 3.2 running sendmail 8.9.3.

Why not just copy his mail file from /var/mail?  You could also
use procmail and write a rule to forward everything over to him.

-Alfred


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