Dustin Douglas wrote: > I've got a user who has an inbox on a server that I run > (qpopper/sendmail/mbox if that makes a diff) They've not > been actively checking their email and now want the address > that I control to be forwarded to a different email server that > I don't run, and they want all their email waiting in their > inbox on my server to be sent to their new address on someone > else's server. > > An obvious solution would be to just make them pop their mail > from my server once and be done with it. However, I'd prefer > doing everything myself on the server side. They would no doubt > call me several times in the course of getting their client set > up to pop their old messages, and I'd prefer to just cut around > that whole mess. > > An ideal solution would be a script I could run against their > existing inbox on my server that would send each of their > waiting messages to their new address. > > Anyone have any pointers? Any tips that work (procmail recipe, > netcat script, ect.) would be most welcome.
What I normally do, is to open the mailbox in pine, select all, and "bounce" it to the new address. The From & To do not change. -- Sanjeev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
