Local mail issue. What did I do here?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 16.04.2005 schrieb Neal Wilkinson um 17:03:

> I can receive root mail now but still have the prior 79 messages. What
> about if I cp /var/spool/mail/root /var/spool/mail/neal will that
> overwrite my mailbox or move the mail from root into that mailbox?

You should use formail (it has a manpage and comes with the procmail
package) to read in the mail from root's mailbox and to let it deliver
again to your different account.

Alexander


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