Re: Mbox Script

On 2/12/07, Gregory Carter <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyone know of a way to pull messages out of a mbox format and forward
> them to the respective user?
>
> I had a fellow admin create a syntax error in the procmailrc script for
> forwarding mail.
>
> Unfortunately it just dumped the mail, but I do have a copy of all mail
> as a audit trail in the root mbox.
>
> Anyone know of a script/program to read mbox format and reforward the mail?

formail -ds procmail

should do the trick (been a while since I've used it).  Anyway, man
formail.  It's part of the procmail package.  You might also check the
procmail FAQ and/or archives.

>
> I could write a shell script to do this I guess, but I do not want to
> recreate the wheel if I do not have too.
>

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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