Sendmail forward

brentos · 02-04-2004, 06:33 PM

I have finally been able to get my sendmail to forward all mails from root on the server to another address and I have tested this by sending a message to root@servername.com and it forwarded it no problems

My problem is that there are 118 messages in /var/spool/mail/root and I want to know if there was any way I could get these messages forwarded some how cause I only have ssh access to the machince and reading mail with the mail command is not very easy.

Any ideas?

carstenson · 04-21-2004, 09:13 AM

The easiest way of doing this is to send them to another local mailbox:

cat /var/spool/mail/root >>/var/spool/mail/<other user>

After confirming receipt of mail on this other user, you can rm /var/spool/mail/root.

I think to send these to a remote mailbox would require a program to read each individually and forward.