force filter of mqueue possible???

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Fri Jan 23 20:03:27 GMT 2004


At 17:39 23/01/2004, you wrote:
>Sorry I mis-stated this question.  The old pre MS mail is in /var/spool/mail
>with each file named to the user (ex. /var/spool/mail/support).  The files
>in mqueue have two parts, dfi* and xfi*, likely one is an index headers and
>the other body of the text.

They should be df* and qf* (df holds the message body and qf holds all the
headers and state).
Haven't seen a setup before that is like the one you describe. Can you
effectively remail all the messages to the corresponding users?

>Is there a way to port over /var/spool/mail/username to mqueue.in were it
>will build the dfi and xfi files???

Haven't seen this setup before, sorry.


>thanks
>joe
>
>Julian Field wrote:
>
> > All you have to do is move the mail queue files into the incoming queue.
> >
> > As root, do this
> >
> > cd /var/spool/mqueue
> > mv * /var/spool/mqueue.in
> >
> > at which point MailScanner will pick it all up and scan it.
> >
> > At 16:54 23/01/2004, you wrote:
> > >Just brought up MS yesterday.
> > >
> > >Is there a way to force the mail left in /var/spool/mqueue to mqueue.in
> > >to scan the doodoo out of old pre MS mail??
> > >
> > >Thanks
> > >joe
> > >
> > >
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