[Cialug] Forwarding lots of emails

[Michael Osten]

On Jun 23, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Andrew Vick wrote:

> Michael Osten wrote:
>> On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Andrew Vick wrote:
>>> I'll be moving from one email account to another soon; I'd like  
>>> to  transfer some (over a thousand) emails to the new account.   
>>> Does  anyone know of an email client (linux or windows, command  
>>> line or  GUI) that can forward a large number of emails in one  
>>> go?  Or would  it be easier to just write a perl script with  
>>> Net::IMAP::Simple?
>> mail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi \ user at domain.com < spoolfile
>
> Is this an old/new version of mail?  I don't see the -Y option in  
> the mail(1) page, nor does an email subject of "/usr/sbin/sendmail"  
> seem part of what you are trying to communicate.
>
> Will this send them as separate emails, or lump them all together  
> into one big message?
>
> -Andrew
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Sorry, bad copy/paste.

That should be:

formail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi \ user at domain.com < spoolfile

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Michael Osten
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