On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 11:11:07AM +0200, Andreas Widere Andersen wrote: > Hi, > On one of my FreeBSD servers all system emails to root is stored in the root > mailbox under /var/mail/root. I have updated my alias file so new mail is > forwarded to one of my email adresses, but is there a simple way for me to > send all these old mails in root's mailbox to my email address without > logging in through pop3/imap? > > A command line trick would be perfect.
mutt is your friend.
Open the mbox file with
# mutt -R -f /var/mail/root
Then Tag all mails (press 'T' then enter '.') and bounce the tagged
messages (press ';' and thenn 'b') to your personal email address.
That's the easiest way I know.
(Of course you need a running MTA, too)
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