[Cialug] Forwarding lots of emails

[Andrew Vick]

Michael Osten wrote:
> 
> On Jun 23, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Andrew Vick wrote:
> 
>> I'll be moving from one email account to another soon; I'd like to  
>> transfer some (over a thousand) emails to the new account.  Does  
>> anyone know of an email client (linux or windows, command line or  
>> GUI) that can forward a large number of emails in one go?  Or would  
>> it be easier to just write a perl script with Net::IMAP::Simple?
> 
> mail -b -Y -f -s /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi \ user at domain.com < spoolfile

Is this an old/new version of mail?  I don't see the -Y option in the mail(1) page, nor does an email subject of "/usr/sbin/sendmail" seem part of what you are trying to communicate.

Will this send them as separate emails, or lump them all together into one big message?

-Andrew