Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 00:19:45 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mail resending Message-ID: <20021208001945.GA4634@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <916F009B-0A35-11D7-9E57-000393681B06@lafn.org> References: <20021207221430.2982.qmail@cat.math.uic.edu> <916F009B-0A35-11D7-9E57-000393681B06@lafn.org>
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On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 02:45:22PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> One of our system accounts had all its mail blocked and there now are
> over 500 emails in dead.letter that need to be resent. Is there a way
> to send them (either from dead.letter or from separate files) without
> having to do each one individually? I haven't been able to find any
> way using mail or sendmail.
If you can split up the dead.letter mailbox into individual messages,
you can just pipe each message into sendmail to resend it. A handy
way of doing that is to install the procmail port
(ports/mail/procmail) and use the formail(1) command which is part of
that, to feed each message one by one into sendmail:
formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oem < dead.letter
[Those sendmail arguments mean:
-t Read message headers to find destination addresses
-oi Ignore dots '.' alone on a line as end-of-message indicators
-oem Return errors by e-mail. This mode never writes to dead.letter,
which is handy for this particular job.]
Cheers,
Matthew
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