Forwarding existing mail

[Duane Attaway]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> A user on a system I manage doesn't have the ability to pick up their
> mail, which has accumulated for a while.  The do have an address I can
> forward it to, and I've set that up for new messages, but how do I
> forward the mail that's already been received without having to go into
> each message and manually re-address it?

fetchmail should be able to do this, with something like:

fetchmail -a -i -v -f fetchmailrc

The fetchmailrc contains

poll <mail.source.com> proto pop3 smtphost <mail.targethost.com>
smtpaddress <targetuser at mail.targethost.com> user <myuser> password
<mypassword>

The smtphost, smtpaddress, smtpname in the man page may show you how to 
get a working rc configuration.  I haven't done this before, so I haven't 
tested it.

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