How to forward old root mails to an external email address?

[Daniel Staal]

--As of February 19, 2011 11:39:38 PM +0100, Andy Wodfer is alleged to have 
said:

> Cool. Procmail is now installed, but the procmail.rc file, should that be
> placed under root's home folder ie /root/procmail.rc or another user? I
> assume root since Daniel's command doesn't specify any users?
>
> That would mean I'm logged in as root, run the command, formail sends all
> mails to procmail which sees the alias in procmail rc and sends the mails
> out? Correct?

--As for the rest, it is mine.

Well, it doesn't have to be root, just $home/.procmailrc of some user that 
can read /var/mail/root...

Otherwise, correct.

Daniel T. Staal

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