[CLUE-Talk] Email Processing Questions

[Grant Johnson]

"Jeffery C. Cann" wrote:
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> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 11:08, Grant Johnson wrote:
> > I created a fake user, set up a procmail to do a forward, then forwarded
> > the whole mess from the old user to the new one.
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> This is totally overkill .  The mail files are simply text files.  Hell, just
> vi a file within your mail directory and you will see that the messages are
> appended to the file.  Simple to parse.
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> If you want to move your mail from olduser to newuser, just do something like
> this:
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> cd ~olduser
> cp -R mail ~newuser
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> Later
That, however does not allow procmail filtering.  I wanted to run
through the MTA (mail transfer agent) to do all of the filtering while
moving it.