utility to move messages stored by qmail

I plan to use qmail with vpopmail.

my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I can
use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by sender/date/subject
etc
any other options would be nice


AndiC

Andrew Crook wrote:

> my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I can
> use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by sender/date/subject
> etc
> any other options would be nice

What's about procmail?


Greetings
Jörg Backschues

rough example

move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld from c@other.tld or

move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld subject "test"

Such a utility exist?

AndiC

"Andrew Crook" <andrew@NOSPAM_andicrook.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:cd8a6s$a8q$1$8302bc10@news.demon.co.uk...
> I plan to use qmail with vpopmail.
>
> my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I can
> use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by sender/date/subject
> etc
> any other options would be nice
>
>
> AndiC
>
>

Andrew Crook wrote:

> rough example
>
> move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld from c@other.tld or
>
> move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld subject "test"
>
> Such a utility exist?

You can use condredirect in .qmail-files to redirect mails.


Greetings
Jörg Bacxkschues

yes I will use that however this is for mail that has already gone through
for one reason or another

AndiC

"Joerg Backschues" <jbks-news@tca-os-news.de> wrote in message
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> Andrew Crook wrote:
>
> > my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I
can
> > use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by
sender/date/subject
> > etc
> > any other options would be nice
>
> What's about procmail?
>
>
> Greetings
> Jörg Backschues
>

Andrew Crook wrote:

>>> my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I
>>> can use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by
>>> sender/date/subject

>> What's about procmail?

> yes I will use that however this is for mail that has already gone through
> for one reason or another

It's possible to do this with standard unix tools (find, grep, mv, cp).

Look at my example:
find ~user/Maildir/.spam/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm -f


Greetings
Jörg Backschues

Thanks

I really wish to be able to do this from the command line only when needed

AndiC

"Joerg Backschues" <jbks-news@tca-os-news.de> wrote in message
news:40f7b36f$0$287$f4da8220@news.eplus-online.de...
> Andrew Crook wrote:
>
> > rough example
> >
> > move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld from c@other.tld or
> >
> > move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld subject "test"
> >
> > Such a utility exist?
>
> You can use condredirect in .qmail-files to redirect mails.
>
>
> Greetings
> Jörg Bacxkschues
>

thanks greet I was not sure if it was safe to so that

i think maildircmd will do the trick as i can use formail

vpopmail. will still let me do that? I am not sure how it sets up the mail
boxes for virtual domains etc

thats if i use it

AndiC


"Joerg Backschues" <jbks-news@tca-os-news.de> wrote in message
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> Andrew Crook wrote:
>
> >>> my question is does anyone know of a utility (I can run server side) I
> >>> can use to move messages from one user to another? e.g. by
> >>> sender/date/subject
>
> >> What's about procmail?
>
> > yes I will use that however this is for mail that has already gone
through
> > for one reason or another
>
> It's possible to do this with standard unix tools (find, grep, mv, cp).
>
> Look at my example:
> find ~user/Maildir/.spam/{cur,new} -type f -ctime +14 | xargs rm -f
>
>
> Greetings
> Jörg Backschues
>

> "Joerg Backschues" <jbks-news@tca-os-news.de> wrote in message
> news:40f7b36f$0$287$f4da8220@news.eplus-online.de...
>> Andrew Crook wrote:
>>
>>> rough example
>>>
>>> move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld from c@other.tld or
>>>
>>> move a@xyz.tld to b@xyz.tld subject "test"
>>>
>>> Such a utility exist?
>>
>> You can use condredirect in .qmail-files to redirect mails.
>>


You could use something like:


maildirectories='cur new'
sourcedir=/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d a@xyz.tld
destdir= /home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d b@xyz.tld

cd $sourcedir/Maildir
for m in $maildirectories
do
find $m -type f -exec mv {} $destdir/Maildir/new \;
done


Add some if/test statement and a call to 822headers if you want to test for
a certain subject.

Best regards
Thomas.

> You could use something like:
>
>
> maildirectories='cur new'
> sourcedir=/home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d a@xyz.tld
> destdir= /home/vpopmail/bin/vuserinfo -d b@xyz.tld
>
> cd $sourcedir/Maildir
> for m in $maildirectories
> do
> find $m -type f -exec mv {} $destdir/Maildir/new \;
> done
>
>
> Add some if/test statement and a call to 822headers if you want to test
for
> a certain subject.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas.
>
>
>

I like it!!!

AndiC