redeliver-mail: new script to redeliver all mail in /var/mail
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e9472285 1#!/bin/bash
2#
3# Redeliver any messages that may have accidentally been sent to
4# /var/mail/$USER, due to temporary AFS glitches.
5#
6# This should be called as root on deleuze.
7
8for MBOX in /var/mail/*; do
9
10 USER=$(basename $MBOX)
11 TMPMBOX=/tmp/exim4/$USER.mbox.tmp
12
13 # Sanity check: file exists and has nonzero size
14 if ! test -s $MBOX; then
15 continue
16 fi
17
18 # Deliver mail. If the message still can't be written to
19 # $USER/Maildir, Exim will place it in /var/mail/$USER again.
20 mv /var/mail/$USER $TMPMBOX
21 formail -s /etc/exim4/deliver-once $USER < $TMPMBOX
22 rm -f $TMPMBOX
23done