[ILUG] fromail rule to resend specific mail from mbox files ?

[Lars Hecking]

Declan Grady writes:
> Hi,
> I have a user who deleted all the mail I sent them !
> I have my mail archived in a load of mbox files, so I need pick out the 
> mail to this user and resend it.
> 
> I know formmail is my friend, but it so long since I used it I forget 
> how to do it !
> 
> I want to run all my mbox files through formail with one rule to match 
> the TO email address, and resend it.

 for mbox in $list ; do
   formail -s procmail file.rc < $mbox
 done

 where file.rc is the procmail rc file with the rule.

 I'd probably experiment with a small mbox and rc file that dumps mails to
 a file before letting it loose on an unsuspecting recipient ...