From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 30 17:48:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 07E1916A4CA for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:48:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8785843D3F for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:46:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Gppzs-0002er-M1 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 12:46:56 -0500 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id kAUHntaJ092191 for ; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:49:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id kAUHnsgu092190 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:49:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:49:54 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> In-Reply-To: <20061130170512.GA67565@skytracker.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611301149.54837.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec799054118777f2597bcf89e57b04b24dec350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 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 17:48:13 -0000 On Thursday 30 November 2006 11:05, 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 are using sendmail you might just alias the mailbox to the user. That way the messages get forwarded to the user upon arrival, rather than on a schedule or with manual intervention. lane