Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 14:56:08 -0500 From: Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?= <wodfer@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my address? Message-ID: <987BC865-AF4A-4324-B2EB-A16E00907847@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80704250423n21d5eaa1hc78ce1262d710959@mail.gmail.com> References: <23ed14b80704250211l16756f5dkab26503c0f66e2a2@mail.gmail.com> <20070425095713.GA9767@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> <23ed14b80704250423n21d5eaa1hc78ce1262d710959@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 25, 2007, at 6:23 AMApr 25, 2007, Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen = wrote: > On 4/25/07, Oliver Peter <hoschi@mouhaha.de> wrote: >> >> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Andreas Widere Andersen =20 >> wrote: >> > Hi, >> > On one of my FreeBSD servers all system emails to root is stored =20= >> in the >> root >> > mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have updated my alias file so =20 >> new mail >> is >> > forwarded to one of my email adresses, but is there a simple way =20= >> for me >> to >> > send all these old mails in root's mailbox to my email address =20 >> without >> > logging in through pop3/imap? >> > >> > A command line trick would be perfect. >> >> mutt is your friend. >> >> Open the mbox file with >> # mutt -R -f /var/mail/root >> >> Then Tag all mails (press 'T' then enter '.') and bounce the tagged >> messages (press ';' and thenn 'b') to your personal email address. >> >> That's the easiest way I know. >> (Of course you need a running MTA, too) > > > Thanks for your reply. I don't have mutt installed and I was hoping =20= > for a > way of doing this without installing additional software. Also, I =20 > didn't > mention that on one of the machines there are probably a year of =20 > emails so > the box is quite large. > > Any other ways? I have sendmail installed and running. > > Cheers, > Andreas Andreas, Edit /etc/mail/aliases and uncomment the root: line and make it look =20 like: root: <your_username> Where <your_username> is the local account and/or email address you =20 want to recieve root email. Save the file, while in the /etc/mail directory, run 'make install && =20= make restart' as root, without the quotes. all email will now go to =20 the new address. Eric=
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