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Subject: Re: How do I forward old root emails from the root mailbox to my
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On 4/25/07, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Sweet!
Thank you all for helping out.

Cheers,
Andreas