Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:04:19 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> To: 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: <462F51D3.9010500@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <20070425095713.GA9767@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de> References: <23ed14b80704250211l16756f5dkab26503c0f66e2a2@mail.gmail.com> <20070425095713.GA9767@nemesis.frida.mouhaha.de>
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Oliver Peter 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? Perform the following command, assuming 'user' is the account you have with the alias to somewhere else: # mail -f /var/mail/root -F user ..which will merrily dump each message to the alias user, and from there forward it to your email account. Steve
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