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Date:      Wed, 16 May 2001 12:20:40 +0200
From:      Gernot Hueber <hueber@riic.at>
To:        Michael Vince <mike@psychosun.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sendmail mail thats never been read via pop3
Message-ID:  <3B025478.F6F32F8C@riic.uni-linz.ac.at>
References:  <003d01c0ddd4$023d7040$2201a8c0@purple>

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Do the "formail" -trick:
formail -s "mail new@adress" < /var/spool/oldaccount

formail belongs to the procmail suite, as I remember.
I didn't test the command above, but it should work  (I hope so) - check the
freebsd-questions
mailinglist if not, this question has already been asked and solved.

Gernot

Michael Vince schrieb:

> I have a sendmail setup and a user whos email account is at 8megs. He hasn't
> logged in via pop3 to pick it up because hes changed ISPs and uses a
> different mail account. I added an aliase (/etc/mail/aliases) rule to send
> all mail to his account to his new ISPs account but there is still that 8
> megs of mail sitting in /var/mail/accountname for him.
> Does any one know how to flush that mail to force it to check the aliase
> rule and forward all the mail to him? or any other way to forward all the
> mail to him?
> That would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks
>
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