Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:47:35 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I need to resend messages from dead.letters Message-ID: <CECB495C-45DF-11D8-98C2-000393681B06@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20040113121841.GC23956@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <63340-22004121311314124@M2W045.mail2web.com> <D6028309-4577-11D8-98C2-000393681B06@lafn.org> <20040113092421.GA73594@users.munk.nu> <20040113121841.GC23956@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Jan 13, 2004, at 04:18, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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? > > > 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. Thanks. I had missed the -t option to sendmail. That does exactly what I needed. -- Doug
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