Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:48:17AM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote:
Not to turn this into alt.support.sendmail, but does anyone know a way
to resend email that's stored in a user mbox file? I've got several
dozen messages stashed in a user file and I would like to be able to
find a way to feed them back to sendmail for normal delivery.

Seems simple enough, but I just can't seem to come up with the right
keywords to coax Google into revealing the secret.

hmm. how about elm's readmsg program inside a loop?

Fri, May 06, 2005 at 04:48:17PM -0500 I heard the voice of
Chris Boyd, and lo! it spake thus:
Not to turn this into alt.support.sendmail, but does anyone know a way
to resend email that's stored in a user mbox file?
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Seems simple enough, but I just can't seem to come up with the right
keywords to coax Google into revealing the secret.

A number of MTA's will let you tag and bounce a set of messages (I
know mutt will). procmail has a mode where you can feed in a full
mbox and it'll split and reinject it into sendmail with a given
recipient address.

There's probably more solutions than there are people on the list, but
those are the two I've used.

upon a time, Chris Boyd <cboyd (AT) gizmopartners (DOT) comsaid:
Not to turn this into alt.support.sendmail, but does anyone know a way
to resend email that's stored in a user mbox file? I've got several
dozen messages stashed in a user file and I would like to be able to
find a way to feed them back to sendmail for normal delivery.

Got procmail? If not, why not? :-)

Try formail:

formail -s sendmail -oi user@host < mbox

It is something like that (this is from memory).

A number of MTA's will []
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MUA of course

Chris Boyd wrote:
Not to turn this into alt.support.sendmail, but does anyone know a way
to resend email that's stored in a user mbox file? I've got several
dozen messages stashed in a user file and I would like to be able to
find a way to feed them back to sendmail for normal delivery.

Seems simple enough, but I just can't seem to come up with the right
keywords to coax Google into revealing the secret.

Take a look at this response I sent on the mailhelp list in 2003. Maybe
it will help.

I also wrote a document for Red Hat a loooooooong time ago (it's way out
of date now) which answers the same question: