[CentOS] send existing root email to another user
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Dec 1 14:12:20 UTC 2009
Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:09 +1300, Lists wrote:
>
>> Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Lists <lists at rheel.co.nz> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Kate,
>>> >
>>> > You need to modify /etc/aliases to have something like:
>>> >
>>>
>>> > root: user at gmail.com <mailto:user at gmail.com>
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > You should then run /usr/bin/newaliases to make these
>>> changes active||.
>>> >
>>> > Matt
>>>
>>> Hi Matt,
>>>
>>> I have done this and it works for new mail arriving but I
>>> need to onsend
>>> the existing mail.
>>>
>>> Ah, I misread what you were looking to do. You should be able to do
>>> the following then.
>>>
>>> cat /var/spool/mail/root | mail -s "Old Root Emails" user at gmail.com
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>> Argh spoke to soon - its mostly all good apart from the attachments
>> that are on the emails don't come through as attachments.
>> Is there any way I can send the so that they are received with
>> attachments still intact?
>>
> ----
> secure shell copy (scp) the file over to whatever computer you want and
> open the file with Thunderbird or Evolution (I think Import mail) as it
> is an 'mbox' file. You can google how to open an mbox file with whatever
> e-mail program you use for e-mail (but probably not outlook).
This is also the way to get the archives from a mailing list, or at
least all the thousands of mailing lists whose archives are in mbox
format. And for Thunderbird there is a nice addon: ImportExportTools
that is currently at v 2.3.1
This approach definitely processes any attachments.
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