On 04/09/2016 08:20 AM, Richard Robbins wrote:

Once I have the collection culled to what I want to retain I thought it would be nice to use an email reader with a redirect command that would permit me to then send those messages to my WordPress site using the post by email function.

Does this approach make sense? Are there alternatives I should consider?

Oh -- and I need to find a current mail program that will allow me redirect existing messages to a new address as opposed to using forward.

Mutt can 'bounce' (i.e. redirect) a mail to a new recipient, but it is an almost trivial Python script to read a mbox and resend every message to a new address. For example, the script at https://www.msapiro.net/scripts/post_from_mbox does essentially that in a Mailman context.

I have attached a rough modification of that script that can read a mbox and remail the messages therein to a given address.

These things are set in the script

SMTPHOST = 'localhost' SMTPPORT = 25 SMTPUSER = None SMTPPW = None MYHOST = socket.gethostname() ENVFROM = 'root@{}'.format(MYHOST)

The script will work as is if there is an MTA listening on localhost:25 that can deliver the mail to the given address. If not, set SMTPHOST to the fully qualified name of the MTA you want to use and set SMTPPORT to the port. If you change nothing else, the script will attempt to send via that host without authentication. If you need to authenticate, set SMTPUSER and SMTPPW appropriately and the script will attempt to start TLS and authenticate as that user.

MYHOST is the host name that will me used in EHLO for a startTLS connection and may or may not need adjustment. ENVFROM is the envelope sender and can be adjusted if needed.

The script does almost no error checking so if anything goes wrong, it will stop with an exception and a traceback and you'll have to fix the problem and try again.

Start with a mbox with only one or two messages and a test address to send to until you're sure it works.