Resend archived mail

[mikea]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 10:48:25AM -0500, John Schmerold wrote:
> We had a sad story this morning. Long story short, I need to resend all 
> archived emails addressed to one domain and archived. We are using 
> Sendmail. If memory serves all we need to do is copy the archived 
> message into mqueue like so:
> cp -p 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20051111/?fjABMN7KU009599   
> /var/spool/mqueue
> 
> It's been 15 minutes or so & the emails have not budged from mqueue:
> [root at mx1 root]# ls -al 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516/?fk4GF081P020699
> -rw-rw----    1 root     root         1085 May 16 10:00 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516/dfk4GF081P020699
> -rw-rw----    1 root     root         3143 May 16 10:00 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516/qfk4GF081P020699
> [root at mx1 root]# ls -al /var/spool/mqueue/?fk4GF081P020699
> -rw-rw----    1 root     root         1085 May 16 10:00 
> /var/spool/mqueue/dfk4GF081P020699
> -rw-rw----    1 root     root         3143 May 16 10:00 
> /var/spool/mqueue/qfk4GF081P020699
> 
> 
> Two questions:
> 1. What am I missing?
> 
> 2. Does any dear soul have a script they'd care to share with the group 
> to re-deliver all emails sent to example.com ?
>        Perhaps something as simple as:
>            dosomething $(grep -ril "@katy.com" 
> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516/qfk4GF081P020699 )

For the first, some variation of "sendmail -q" should suffice. You want 
sendmail to run the queue, and that command causes a queue run to happen. 
Or have you tried that already? 

I'll defer to others on #2; they'll have some incredibly-obvious-in-
hindsight solution, where I'll have a Tingueley-cum-Goldberg kludge.

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin