question on batch email sending

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at msu.edu
Thu Nov 30 09:40:58 PST 2006


On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:05:12PM -0500, David Banning wrote:

> 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?

Try going in to MUTT, tagging them att (;t) and then 'bouncing' 
then to the other address.   That should take only a few seconds
effort if you have MUTT installed and a few minutes if you need
to install it.

////jerry

> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"


More information about the freebsd-questions mailing list