MAIL.LOCAL
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NAME
mail.local
- store mail in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
mail.local
[-f from
]
user ...
DESCRIPTION
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:
- -f from
-
Specify the sender's name.
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.
The mail files are exclusively locked with
flock(2)
while mail is appended.
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.
ENVIRONMENT
- TZ
-
Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
FILES
- /tmp/local.XXXXXX
-
temporary files
- /var/mail/user
-
user's mailbox directory
SEE ALSO
mail(1),
xsend(1),
flock(2),
getservbyname(3),
comsat(8),
sendmail(8)
HISTORY
A superset of
mail.local
(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery)
appeared in
AT&T System
v7 .
as the program
mail
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