On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Tal Amir wrote: > ira, > > the mail is already in that mailbox. > i now setted it up (or at least tried to) to forward all its messages to > external email mailboxes.
like Adi says, fetchmail can suck via pop3 all the mail from that "mail only account", and send it elsewhere for you (or leave you an mbox file I suppose). this is what it does. > problem 1 : niether .forward or .forwardfc forwards the mail (exsisting or > new messages) ofcourse it won't forward mail, it's a conf file. not a program. sendmail looks at it during delivery into the user's $HOME. if you are talking about a mail-only account, it probably HAS no home to speak of, or stick a .forward into, and .forward will certainly not cause sendmail to retroactively read mail BACK from an mbox and re-route it. for that you use formail or fetchmail (or Maildir2smtp if you use sane mail servers) > problem 2 : i went through fetchmail's man page and could not find an > option to forward those messages. if at first you don't succeed, read read again. I would suck it into an mbox, view it with PINE, tag all messages, and Apply "bounce" to a new Email address. does an excellent job. I bet mutt will provide a similar feature. > what i am looking for is somethig like /usr/lib/sendmail -q when you want > to force queue delivery. this is what i want this mailbox to do. (well, > kind of..if you get the point..) if the above still doesn't help, your setup is more complicated than what you describe maybe, so describe it, please. -- (@- Please do NOT cc: me answers posted also to the list //\ Send me private mail at <YourName (at) ira.abramov.org> v_/_ to send me spam please use: cat spam.txt > /dev/hda ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
