Mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each
user's mail file. The
user must be a valid user name.
The options are as follows:
-7 |
Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.
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-B |
Turn off the attempts to notify the ``biff'' service.
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-b |
Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error
if a mailbox exceeds quota.
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-d |
Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility).
This option has no effect.
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-D mbdb |
Specify the name of the mailbox database
which is used to look up local recipient names.
This option defaults to "pw", which means use getpwnam().
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-f from |
Specify the sender's name.
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-l |
Turn on LMTP mode.
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-s |
Turn off the fsync(2) call that forces the mailbox to be committed
to disk before returning a "success" status.
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-r from |
Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).
Same as -f.
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-h filename |
Store incoming mail in filename in the user's home directory instead
of a system mail spool directory.
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The next options are only available if
mail.local has been compiled with -DHASHSPOOL.
-H hashtypehashdepth |
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Select hashed mail directories.
Valid hash types are
u for user name and
m for MD5 (requires compilation with -DHASHSPOOLMD5).
Example:
-H u2 selects user name hashing with a hash depth of 2.
Note: there must be no space between the hash type and the depth.
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-p path |
Specify an alternate mail spool path.
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-n |
Specify that the domain part of recipient addresses in LMTP mode
should not be stripped.
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Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty
line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''.
A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp
is prepended to each delivered mail message.
A blank line is appended to each message.
A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message
which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line
(that is,
a line beginning with the five characters
``From '' following a blank line).
The mail files are exclusively locked with
flock(2)
while mail is appended,
and a
user.lock file also is created while the mailbox is locked
for compatibility with older MUAs.
If the ``biff'' service is returned by
getservbyname(3),
the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
The
mail.local utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.