Re: Forwading Email Files to Users

[Danny Sauer <sauer@cloudmaster.com>]

In the case where there are just a few people, I'd personally open up
the old mail spool with 'mutt -f /var/spool/mail/user1' and save all
of the messages to their new spool file.  Whatever mail program you
like should work just as well.  I'm concerned about using the '>>'
method, as I thought there was some requirement for a few blank lines
between messages in some mbox implementations...

This works well for migrating a small group of users over to maildir,
BTW, which is also far neater than mbox-based mailspools.  All of the
pre-writen scripts I tried would screw up the new/old attributes, but
mutt worked fine (aside from taking for-friggin-ever to run manually).

--Danny, who should've used Perl, but had too much lazy in him

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 09:09:48PM -0500, Aaron Cronkright 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.
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