question on batch email sending

Bill Moran wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Thu Nov 30 09:17:03 PST 2006


In response to David Banning <david+dated+1165338313.d83636 at skytracker.ca>:

> I have a standard mailbox with around 40 messages. I want to be able
> to just send them all to someone, the same person, not as an
> attachment but as individual emails. I want to do something like;
> 
> cat /var/mail/frank | someprogram franksnewaddress at franksdomain.com
> 
> So that Frank can just get it into his regular inbox. I realize that 
> I could just ask Frank to pop it off the server but then he would have
> to setup for just one occasion. Is there a way to do what I want?

fetchmail was designed for this sort of thing.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.


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