formail, part of procmail (and probably already available on your system) can take a mailbox, split it up into messages, and then run a command on each one. From the man page:
-s The input will be split up into separate mail messages, and piped
into a program one by one (a new program is started for every
part). -s has to be the last option specified, the first argument
following it is expected to be the name of a program, any other
arguments will be passed along to it. If you omit the program,
then formail will simply concatenate the split mails on stdout
again. See FILENO.
T puts it into tagging mode, and .* tags all messages.
The semi-colon applies the next command to all tagged messages, and finally b "bounces" the messages to an address it will prompt for.
The /var/spool/mail/xxx unix mailbox files are simple text files where mail messages are kept in sequence. Each mail message begin by a "From" line (taht is not part of the message) with sender and date of reception, then you get mail headers, then mail body.
Basically you can just loop on the file detecting such From lines and extract every messages then send them using tools like python smtp module or perl Net::SMTP module from cpan.
If target is another local mailbox you can just append the messages (including the From line) to it. You could even append the whole root mailbox to another mailbox if you don't care also getting of messages really targeted to root.
I should have some scripts that do that and will post exemples if you want.
The problem may be to get the real target of the message because if they ended in root mailbox they were probably targeted to root from the begining ?
formail, part of procmail (and probably already available on your system) can take a mailbox, split it up into messages, and then run a command on each one. From the man page:
So you can do what I think you want like this:
Then within mutt...
T puts it into tagging mode, and .* tags all messages. The semi-colon applies the next command to all tagged messages, and finally b "bounces" the messages to an address it will prompt for.
From memory, I think either
or
Will then empty the mailbox.
The /var/spool/mail/xxx unix mailbox files are simple text files where mail messages are kept in sequence. Each mail message begin by a "From" line (taht is not part of the message) with sender and date of reception, then you get mail headers, then mail body.
Basically you can just loop on the file detecting such From lines and extract every messages then send them using tools like python smtp module or perl Net::SMTP module from cpan.
If target is another local mailbox you can just append the messages (including the From line) to it. You could even append the whole root mailbox to another mailbox if you don't care also getting of messages really targeted to root.
I should have some scripts that do that and will post exemples if you want.
The problem may be to get the real target of the message because if they ended in root mailbox they were probably targeted to root from the begining ?