Yes it will allow this. With the command I gave you above, formail will parse the mbox file, split out the separate email messages, and pipe each message to sendmail. Sendmail gets the parameters -oem <dest-address> which will send the mails to that email address. So if you had 5 messages in your mbox file, sendmail will send 5 separate messages.

Here is what the switches do:

• +1 skip the first message in the file (usually a POP3 header)
• -d the file does not have to be in strict mbox format
• -s execute the following command for each message. in this case execute 'sendmail -oem <dest-address>'

A quick search on google found many man pages on formail. They might give some more insight into what it can do. The best way to learn is just to try it out and see.

By the way, I initially said that formail came with sendmail. That was incorrect. It comes as part of the procmail package.

- Cees