Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists@rheel.co.nz mailto:lists@rheel.co.nz> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Centos 5.4
I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file
I need to send this all to another address (preferrably external but
local would possibly do)

I have searched a lot but can't find any way to do this. I have set it
so future emails get forwarded to my external address but I also
need to
shift the existing emails.

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.

Thanks Kate

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Lists lists@rheel.co.nz wrote:

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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

Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Lists <lists@rheel.co.nz mailto:lists@rheel.co.nz> wrote:

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

Kate

Craig White wrote:

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 16:09 +1300, Lists wrote:

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Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

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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?

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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.

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Lists lists@rheel.co.nz wrote:

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?

Kate

Not that I can think of but Craig's suggestion might work.

Matt

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John R Pierce wrote:

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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?

install mutt if you haven't already. (yum install mutt)

as root, go into mutt. you should see all your messages, or at least the first screenful of them.

tag all the messages by... T .* <enter> (no spaces, just shift-T, then .* to tag all and enter to make the tag happen) now each message header should show a *

;b

to 'bounce' all messages that are taggged. give it an address to 'bounce' them too, and voila. they remain in the mailbox, so...

;d

and yes to delete all. q to quit (it won't actually purge the deleted messages til you quit)

in general, ; means the next command is executed on all tagged messages.

I'm sure there's probably a more elegant way to do this, but this is thie quickest way I know.

Thank you this worked perfectly.

Mathew S. McCarrell wrote:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Lists <lists@rheel.co.nz mailto:lists@rheel.co.nz> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm running Centos 5.4
I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file
I need to send this all to another address (preferrably external but
local would possibly do)

I have searched a lot but can't find any way to do this. I have set it
so future emails get forwarded to my external address but I also
need to
shift the existing emails.

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||.

An alternative is to create the file: /root/.forward with the one line:

user@domain

I don't know which of these approaches is more efficient. With the .forward, the change takes effect immediately.

Matt

-- Mathew S. McCarrell Clarkson University '10

mccarrms@gmail.com mailto:mccarrms@gmail.com mccarrms@clarkson.edu mailto:mccarrms@clarkson.edu 1-518-314-9214

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Jason Pyeron wrote:

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-----Original Message----- From: Lists Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 21:33 To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] send existing root email to another user

Hi all,

I'm running Centos 5.4 I have a pile of emails in my root users /var/spool/mail/root file I need to send this all to another address (preferrably external but local would possibly do)

You want to bounce the messages. Tools like Pine can do it throught a fancy UI. Or you can:

formail -s procmail < mbox

Assuming you set it up to be delivered corectly now.

http://googleit1st.com/search?q=redeliver+mbox

hmm I tried that but nothing seemed to happen. I used Matts suggestion of cat /var/spool/mail/root | mail -s "mail" user@domain.com which has set it as one email.

Thanks Kate

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I have searched a lot but can't find any way to do this. I have set it so future emails get forwarded to my external address but I also need to shift the existing emails.

Thanks Kate

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