How to retrive mail from nobody

Hi everyone,

I reconfigured (badly) postfix because FQDN changed (fixed now) and all root emails temporarily were sent to nobody account '/var/mail/nobody'

Now I have a chunk of emails and I do not know if it is a way to retrieve then to root. The /etc/aliases has the relevant entries:

nobody: root
postfix: root
postmaster: root

and newaliases updated the db.

I am thinking of a command to let MDA to move all the emails from nobody to root. This is not about postqueue!

I switched MTA to sendmail/exim4 but no success obviously

Thanks a lot!

As a quick answer to that: A mbox is text, so you can probably do a sed command to change the 'nobody' or open the mail box as root

mutt -f /var/mail/root

and forward them appropriately.

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