requeueing / resending archived emails

Peter Farrow peter at farrows.org
Wed Dec 12 14:52:52 GMT 2007


Mikael Syska wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking for the same thing ...
>
> Sure hope there are someone out there with the answer ....
>
> Guess its some like piping the "file" ( mail ) to the mail program on 
> the box ... just not sure how ....
>
> // ouT
>
> Bundschuh, Philipp wrote:
>>
>> hello everybody,
>>
>> we use the email-archiving feature and a copy of all incoming mails 
>> is stored in /var/spool/MailScanner/archive/.
>>
>> Now I have all messages in „Date-Named-Folders“, BUT:
>>
>> How can I resend the messages or one message to the origin 
>> destination or to an alternative email-adress?
>>
>> I could’t finy anything on the web.
>>
>> Please help.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Philipp
>>
>
 >>How can I resend the messages or one message to the origin 
destination or to an alternative email-adress?

If you are running Sendmail and the messages are Queue files you can 
copy them to the outgoing Queue directory and issue a sendmail -qv

Sendmail will de-queue theemails to the original recipients.  I recently 
did this when 5000+ emails backed up on a miss-behaving MailScanner 
server...

P.

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