Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:18:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need to resend messages from dead.letters Message-ID: <20040113121841.GC23956@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040113092421.GA73594@users.munk.nu> References: <63340-22004121311314124@M2W045.mail2web.com> <D6028309-4577-11D8-98C2-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20040113092421.GA73594@users.munk.nu>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 09:24:21AM +0000, Jez Hancock wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:23:20PM -0800, Doug Hardie wrote:
> > There was a problem last night with my mail server and a bunch of mail
> > went into the dead.letters mailbox rather than being sent. I have that
> > mailbox and need a way to send all of those messages. I split them out
> > into individual files, but there are just too many to send by hand. Is
> > there a way to cause them all to be resent?
> Look at the -f option to the mail command - see the manpage for mail(1)
> for more info.
Hmmm.. I don't think that's quite what the OP wanted.
One solution is to install the procmail port (ports: mail/procmail)
which contains a stunningly useful utility called formail(1). Amongst
formail's many talents is the ability to split up a mbox format
mailbox into individual messages and pipe each into a program. So in
order to resend all of the messages in your dead.letter you could try:
% formail -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -t -oiee < dead.letter
Or to split up the dead.letter mailbox into individual numbered
messages:
% formail -s /bin/sh -c 'cat > msg.$FILENO' < dead.letter
and you can pipe each message into sendmail as above to re-send it:
% /usr/sbin/sendmail -v -t -oiee < msg.999
Nb. be careful when doing this sort of thing, or you'll spray e-mails
all over the place and make yourself quite unpopular.
Cheers,
Matthew
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