Resend archived mail

[John Schmerold]

That explains why this did not work:
sendmail 
-OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516 
-qR at katy.com

Scott Silva wrote:

>John Schmerold spake the following on 5/16/2006 8:48 AM:
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>>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
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>>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
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>>Two questions:
>>1. What am I missing?
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>>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 )
>>
>>TIA
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>That will not work as the quarantine doesn't contain queue files, it contains
>RFC type mail files. You would have to use "sendmail -toi user at domain <
>messagefile". It could be scripted, but that is beyond my humble skills.
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John Schmerold

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