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From: dcox@ssd.kodak.com (Don Cox)
Subject: mailing a mail folder
Message-ID: <1991Apr11.014215.11231@ssd.kodak.com>
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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 91 01:42:15 GMT

System: Sun

I am on numerous mailing lists in our organization and save
all of the postings in appropriate mail folders.  I would
like to be able to mail a newcomer to a list all of the
previous postings.  I found out that you can't mail a
mail folder:

# mail newperson < mail_folder
doesn't do anything.  I can mail the mail folder as a huge file by:

# cat mail_folder | mail newperson
but I would rather the posting were sent as individual messages.

(When I 'mail -f mail_folder', I can read the postings one at a
time.  I would like to be able to mail them in the same manner)
 
Is such a thing possible?  Does anyone know of any way to archive
articles from a mail list so that all of the previous postings can
be mailed to someone new to the list?  Thanks much.
-- 
                  Don Cox
Phone (716) 253-7121      KMX (716) 253-7998
INTERNET    dcox@ssd.kodak.com