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Re: "redeliver" email in /var/spool/mail to proper, user Maildir?

2008-04-24 18:04:24

On 23-Apr-2008, at 15:34, Gerald V. Livingston II wrote:

Robert Kuropkat wrote:
hmmm, I liked this suggestion because it seemed so simple:

formail -ds procmail < /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

But testing it on my own mail file does not seem to be working, it's
just hung.  It's only 1Mg so I would not expect it to actually take  
long
to process.

I am using sendmail.  I go look up the sendmail equivalent to what  
you
suggest.

It is a BAD idea to do that with /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

If something goes wrong with the delivery *again* then it will be
writing the messages back to /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME while you are
reading from the file. Double the messages, double the fun, every time
you try it and fail.

cp /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME /home/$LOGNAME/tempmbox
rm /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

ooooo, I know that's caused problems for me in the past.

echo "" > /var/spool/mail/$LOGNAME

-- 
Yeah, Nick. Nick's the kinda guy you can trust. Nick's your buddy  
Nick's the
        kinda guy you drink beers with. The kinda guy that doesn' care if you
        puke in his car. Nick.

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