Re: Forwading Email Files to Users

[Robert Threet <rthreet@yahoo.com>]

I have had to restore mail directories for people who
deleted important e-mail.  When I do, I copy the
/var/spool/mail file "somewhere", restore the older version
and then cat >> the "somewhere" file back into
/var/spool/mail.  This seems to work.  I would guess you
might be able to do something similar although the headers
would be different...  (What would that look like when you
read the mail?)

--- Aaron Cronkright <aaron@cronkright.com> wrote:
> Ok,  For those of you who have done some hardcore email
> administration with sendmail:
> 
> I have 3 users at work who have recently married which
> resulted in a name change.  Rather than give them a new
> account and edit the aliases file to forward email from
> their old account, I just assigned them a new account. 
> Well, over time they have received email to their old
> account and their email files in /var/spool/mail are
> growing.  I need to take the emails from their old
> accounts and forward them to their new accounts.  Is
> there any way I can extract the emails from the old files
> in /var/spool/mail and forward them to different
> accounts?  If I can, I will set up aliases for these
> people since the /var/spool/mail files are getting rather
> large.
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> Aaron Cronkright
> aaron@cronkright.com
> 
> 
> 


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