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Subject: Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my
 address?
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> but is there a simple way for me to send all these old mails in
> root's mailbox to my email address without logging in through
> pop3/imap?

A combination of cat /var/mail/root | formail -s and something.

cat /var/mail/root | formail -s will read /var/mail/root, separate
each message and pipe it to the command that follow the -s. The
command could be a sendmail new@email.address.com or something, you may have to
investigate.

cat /var/mail/root | formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail new@email.address.com

Olivier