Hello,
I have Redhat Linux with Sendmail installed using POP3. We use
outlook 2000/2003 for the front end. I have one user that uses both
her laptop, and desktop to check her emails. Up until today, she can't
get her email on her desktop as it is already on her laptop. I can
still see all of the messages on the server. Is there a way to resend
messages that are in /var/mail/<username> so she can get them on her
Desktop?

P.S. I already tried using mutt -f /var/mail/rcpt@domain.net. Then
putting t's on all the messages, then pressing b to bounce, then add
the recipients email address, but this did not work.

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scotv453 <scotv453@gmail.com> writes:
> I have Redhat Linux with Sendmail installed using POP3. We use
> outlook 2000/2003 for the front end. I have one user that uses both
> her laptop, and desktop to check her emails. Up until today, she can't
> get her email on her desktop as it is already on her laptop. I can
> still see all of the messages on the server. Is there a way to resend
> messages that are in /var/mail/<username> so she can get them on her
> Desktop?

Have you considered adding access to mailbox via IMAP protocol?

> [...]

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On 5 d=E9c, 18:33, scotv453 <scotv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>  I have Redhat Linux with Sendmail installed using POP3. We use
> outlook 2000/2003 for the front end. I have one user that uses both
> her laptop, and desktop to check her emails. Up until today, she can't
> get her email on her desktop as it is already on her laptop. I can
> still see all of the messages on the server. Is there a way to resend
> messages that are in /var/mail/<username> so she can get them on her
> Desktop?
>
> P.S. I already tried using mutt -f /var/mail/r...@domain.net. Then
> putting t's on all the messages, then pressing b to bounce, then add
> the recipients email address, but this did not work.

IMAP is your friend....
Zoot

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On Dec 6, 4:07 am, SarDameAveline <a...@swing.be> wrote:
> On 5 d=E9c, 18:33, scotv453 <scotv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> IMAP is your friend....
> Zoot

I am working in an IT position, and we have well over 200 people
working here. And we already payed for google apps to host our email.
So just changing to imap is not an option right now. Please assist.

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On Dec 6, 8:25 am, scotv453 <scotv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 4:07 am, SarDameAveline <a...@swing.be> wrote:
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I meant to say that we haven't migrated to google apps yet, but there
is not point changing up our internal servers for two reasons. 1) It
is only one user having a problem. 2) We will be migrating soon.

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scotv453 schrieb:
> On Dec 6, 4:07 am, SarDameAveline <a...@swing.be> wrote: 
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> I am working in an IT position, and we have well over 200 people
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Then you might want to turn to them for support, too.

> So just changing to imap is not an option right now. Please assist.

Configure the clients so that they both fetch all mail. From your
description, it looks like the desktop doesn't fetch the mail the
laptop has already faught even though it is there.

Anyway, this has nothing to do with Sendmail, it's a client problem.
(And you didn't even say what the client software is.) Blindly
resending the entire mailbox with something like
"formail -ds sendmail user@addr.ess < /var/mail/user"
would probably only make your problem worse.

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On Dec 7, 3:39 am, Tilman Schmidt <ts-usenet0...@pxnet.com> wrote:
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> (And you didn't even say what the client software is.) Blindly
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I thought I did say we are using outlook. And we can't turn to google
apps for support because we didn't migrate to them yet. Is there
anything I can do to send all of her mail to her desktop machine.

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On Dec 7, 11:53 am, scotv453 <scotv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 7, 3:39 am, Tilman Schmidt <ts-usenet0...@pxnet.com> wrote:
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> anything I can do to send all of her mail to her desktop machine.

Using an alias, deliver the mail to two mailboxes, one for the laptop
and one for the desktop.  They can each fetch using pop3.
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scotv453 schrieb:
> On Dec 7, 3:39 am, Tilman Schmidt <ts-usenet0...@pxnet.com> wrote: 
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> I thought I did say we are using outlook.

Ah, yes, sorry, indeed you did. I hadn't looked properly.

I don't know Outlook too well (we have a policy of avoiding it in
order to reduce virus problems) but I seem to remember it has several
options for POP3, including "leave mail on server", "delete on server
if deleted locally", and "fetch only unread mail". You may want to
verify those, and perhaps experiment a bit with them. Bear in mind
that option settings in Microsoft Office don't always to what their
labels seem to indicate.

> And we can't turn to google
> apps for support because we didn't migrate to them yet.

I see. So you're looking for a cheap interim solution until that
migration. Well, if the above (playing with Outlook options) doesn't
solve your problem, one cheap if slightly awkward solution might be
to create two separate mailboxes for laptop and desktop and have an
alias entry for delivering all mails to both of them in parallel.

> Is there
> anything I can do to send all of her mail to her desktop machine.

Only if she has a mailserver running there. Otherwise her desktop
machine will have to *fetch* it. Yes, I'm fussing about words, but
that distinction is essential to your problem.

HTH
T.

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