Resend archived mail

[John Schmerold]

Ken,

Thank you. You've provided some very good inspiration. Of course, I've 
run into the dreaded "Argument list too long" issue.

Some days I wonder why I jumped on the Linux bandwagon.

John

Ken A wrote:

>
> John Schmerold wrote:
>
>> Turns out the answer to the fundamental question is: you need to copy 
>> to mqueue.in:
>> cp -p 
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/20051101/20060516/?fk4GLVKel032053 
>> /var/spool/mqueue.in
>>
>
> That will just send them through MailScanner and catch and quarantine 
> them again. They need to go into the outgoing queue.
>
> Something like this ugly shell script will get everything under 
> quarantine (all dates) that is going to some domain.com.
>
> cd /var/spool/MailScanner/quarantine/
>
> for i in `grep "rRFC822" */*/qf* | \
> grep -w domain.com | \
> awk -F : '{print $1}' | \
> sort -u | \
> sed 's/\/qf/\/?f/'`; \
> do echo $i; \
> done;
>
> Cut and paste it in. Replace domain.com with the domain you want to 
> find. Replace "echo $i" with "cp $i /var/spool/mqueue" when you like 
> the output.
>
> Run the outgoing queue manually if it's stuck for some reason.
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -oQ/var/spool/mqueue -v -qRdomain.com
>
> Ken A
> Pacific.Net
>
>
>> I'm hoping to whip up a script that looks for the domain in the q 
>> file, then copies q & f file to /var/spool/mqueue.in
>>
>> I sure wish FoxPro worked on my Centos box :-(
>>
>> 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 )
>>>
>>> TIA
>>
>>
>>

-- 
John Schmerold

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