From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 17:45:28 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 CBCE016A416 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:45:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@buildingonline.com) Received: from mail.buildingonline.net (mail.buildingonline.net [12.130.64.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CF543CAC for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:45:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@buildingonline.com) Received: from [192.168.1.228] ([209.137.253.157]) by mail.buildingonline.net (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id kAUHiwj4069215; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:44:59 GMT In-Reply-To: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> References: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <5BF4E289-71A3-4FB9-84F1-D60A059D97AA@buildingonline.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dan Busarow Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:44:59 -0700 To: David Banning X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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 17:45:28 -0000 On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:05 AM, David Banning wrote: > 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? If you have procmail installed cat /var/mail/frank | formail -s sendmail franksnewaddress@franksdomain.com Dan