From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 18 11:56:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C18E537B43E for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:56:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7IIuJF19180; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:56:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 11:56:19 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Craig Critchley Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Forwarding mailbox contents Message-ID: <20000818115619.S4854@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <0a1801c00944$f4295730$0201010a@craigc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <0a1801c00944$f4295730$0201010a@craigc>; from craigc@fuzzer.com on Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:48:52AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Craig Critchley [000818 11:37] wrote: > I have a local user who has gone away. I'll be forwarding his mail to a new > account (no problem there) but I also want to forward any messages currently > sitting in his mailbox. Is there an easy way I (as root) can do that > without logging on to his account and manually forwarding each of his old > messages? > > This is on FreeBSD 3.2 running sendmail 8.9.3. Why not just copy his mail file from /var/mail? You could also use procmail and write a rule to forward everything over to him. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message