Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:23:07 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?=" <wodfer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my address? Message-ID: <23ed14b80704250423n21d5eaa1hc78ce1262d710959@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070425095713.GA9767@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> References: <23ed14b80704250211l16756f5dkab26503c0f66e2a2@mail.gmail.com> <20070425095713.GA9767@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de>
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On 4/25/07, Oliver Peter <hoschi@mouhaha.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Andreas Widere Andersen wrote: > > Hi, > > On one of my FreeBSD servers all system emails to root is stored in the > root > > mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have updated my alias file so new mail > is > > forwarded to one of my email adresses, but is there a simple way for me > to > > send all these old mails in root's mailbox to my email address 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 for a way of doing this without installing additional software. Also, I didn't mention that on one of the machines there are probably a year of emails so the box is quite large. Any other ways? I have sendmail installed and running. Cheers, Andreas
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