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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:46:39 -0700
From: "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To: Craig Critchley <craigc@fuzzer.com>
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Subject: Re: Forwarding mailbox contents
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On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 11:48:52AM -0700, Craig Critchley 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.

Do you have procmail installed? Then just,

  # formail -s sendmail -t < /var/mail/user

-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.com


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