How-To: Resend exim emails from a mailbox

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This How-To is based on [Redeliver Script].

Attention: NEVER do anything explaned here BEFORE understand what you are doing.

Introduction

There are a useful PERL script on Exim Wiki that resend emails from a single mailbox file.

What it does is read a mailbox file (/home/username/mail/Sent for example) and, from each email inside this file it will resend email to right destinataries according Return-path or Envelope-to headers.

In some cases, Exim can give problem and it can be useful.


How to use it

Try to run it without root! 

$ wget http://cpwiki.org/contrib/redeliver.txt

Stop here to take a look on redeliver.txt to see if there aren't any problem on the code: 

$ cat redeliver.txt

Here MAILBOX is mailbox file with emails. 

$ mv redeliver.txt redeliver.pl
$ perl redeliver.pl MAILBOX


Resend all messages in email queue

There are a tip at [Exim Wiki] to resend all messages in email queue.

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