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Re: Sending entire mail folders to someone (yourself)

1999-09-23 18:47:42
To: "Colin J. Raven" <cjraven(_at_)quik(_dot_)com>
From: Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>

"Colin J. Raven" <cjraven(_at_)quik(_dot_)com> writes:
Sometime ago, I seem to recall someone posting a solution that allows
a person to send an entire mail folder to another recipient, (or
myself when changing ISP's) so for example, send my in-procmail
folder from me(_at_)account1 to me(_at_)account2(_dot_)  Does anyone recall 
this
post?

First, set up the forwarding so that you don't have to worry about
messages being delivered to me(_at_)account1's mailbox.  Then, assuming
me(_at_)account1's mailbox is in mbox format, you can just use formail to
split the mailbox and invoke sendmail on each one:

 formail -Y -s sendmail me(_at_)account2 < /path/to/mailbox

I use this a lot, but hadn't seen the -Y flag to formail.  I
just looked.  Is there a danger if it's not used?  Are Content-Length:
fields somehow bad?  (-Y causes ignore to them.)

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