From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 17:17:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7624416A505 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:17:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABF1D43EBF for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:10:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.pgh.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.61]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:09:59 -0500 id 0005648E.456F1067.0000B129 Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:09:59 -0500 From: Bill Moran To: David Banning Message-Id: <20061130120959.437ada40.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> References: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question on batch email sending X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:17:03 -0000 In response to David Banning : > I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able > to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an > attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like; > > cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram franksnewaddress@franksdomain.com > > So that Frank can just get it into his regular inbox. I realize that > I could just ask Frank to pop it off the server but then he would have > to setup for just one occasion. Is there a way to do what I want? fetchmail was designed for this sort of thing. -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc.