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@rheel.co.nz wrote: > > Kate, > > You need to modify /etc/aliases to have something like: >
> root: user@gmail.com <mailto:user@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@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.