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.