Re: [cobalt-users] Mail forwarding

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andy Jacobs wrote:

> Is there any way to forward mail *after* the mail forwarding has been set
> up?

Yes and no <smile>...

> I forgot to do it with a customer and they have mail in their inbox
> that won't go unless I set up an account to collect it and then forward it
> manually.  I just wondered if there was an easier way.

If you do this from your RaQ's /home/spool/mail directory, your customer
will get the mail, but it will all come as one giant email, the customer
can then edit the file on his/her new system (either before or after
downloading it), to change the first line of each email from

   >From whatever

to

   From whatever

Removing the ">" symbol in front of the word "From " (with the space) at
the top of each email, so the emails can then be read separately.

Here's the line to use to do the forward (remember, from the
/home/spool/mail directory):

# mail new-email-address < mailbox-name

That'll do it.

Jeff
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