Olivier Sannier wrote:
> Jay Lee wrote:
> > Olivier Sannier wrote:
> > > Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > > > Olivier Sannier writes:
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I had setup an account to receive mail and it has a few emails
> > > > > waiting in the "New" folder of its maildir.
> > > > > However, the setup has changed and this account is no longer
> > > > > to be used but instead gets aliased by the "alias" file so
> > > > > that the mail is forwarded to an outside email account.
> > > > > Something like that:
> > > > >
> > > > > user: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > > >
> > > > > So right now, any mail sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] gets
> > > > > forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and that is just fine with me.
> > > > > However, the existing emails in the "New" folder should be
> > > > > forwarded to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'm not quite sure on to
> > > > > how to proceed with this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > You're making this more complicated that it needs to be. Take
> > > > all the files in new, and put them in new's directory in the
> > > > other mailbox. This is assuming that both mailboxes are owned
> > > > by the same system uid and gid.
> > > >
> > > > Done.
> > >
> > > But the account where it needs to be forwarded is NOT on the same
> > > server and its configuration is out of my control.
> > > The alias file allows to do this and it works just fine. However,
> > > it was put in place a bit too late and I would like to forward
> > > what is already sitting on the server.
> > >
> > Then connect to both servers with any mail client and copy them
> > over. IMAPCopy
> > (http://home.arcor.de/armin.diehl/imapcopy/imapcopy.html) would do
> > fine.
> >
> > Like Sam said, you're making this harder than it needs to be, there
> > are a hundred ways you could do this...
> >
> > Jay
>
> But then again, I don't have IMAP on the other end. Ah well, I'll
> manage a way but it would have been nice to be able to put them back
> in the queue for courier to reprocess them.
You could resend them using sendmail.
Something like this:
for filename in `find Maildir/new -type f`
do
sendmail -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] < $filename
done
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Bowie
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