Paul Jakma wrote:
>> what's the best way to resend mail that is already delivered?
>> ie there are a good few users who've recently moved, but they still
> have email lying in /var/spool/mail.
>> now i've discovered "formail +1 -ds command" which will seemingly take
> a mailbox on stdin and split it into individual messages and pipe them
> to 'command'. but i'm missing what command should be... mail doesn't
> cut it, cause it acts as if the piped data is just the message. i need
> something that will take a complete message and email it so it appears
> to be from the "From:" in the header, and to the "To: in the header.
>> any ideas?
sendmail should do the trick, the only niggly bit is that unless you run
as root and supply the correct argument to -f, the headers will contain
a line about the From line possibly being faked but it'll do the job I
think,
Fergal
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