From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 16 3:26: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at (mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.161.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2624237B422 for ; Wed, 16 May 2001 03:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hueber@riic.at) Received: from riic.uni-linz.ac.at (hawkings.riic.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.161.239]) by mail.riic.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25371; Wed, 16 May 2001 12:20:35 +0200 Message-ID: <3B025478.F6F32F8C@riic.uni-linz.ac.at> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 12:20:40 +0200 From: Gernot Hueber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Vince Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail mail thats never been read via pop3 References: <003d01c0ddd4$023d7040$2201a8c0@purple> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Dipl.-Ing. Gernot Hueber Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen Freistädter Strasse 315/2 A-4040 Linz Tel: +43 732 2468-7118, Fax: -7126 E-mail: hueber@riic.at To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message