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Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 28 December 85
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NAME

recvprog - MMDF inbound generalized program channel

SYNOPSIS

recvprog [ -D ] [ -c channel ] [ -{hv} host ] [ -s sender ] [ -M? ] [ addresses ]

DESCRIPTION

The generalized program inbound channel is part of the MMDF mail system. Recvprog is called by the transport layer trying to be interfaced to MMDF. For example, the ACSNET system might call recvprog to give mail to the MMDF system. It in turn calls the MMDF program submit. Since the program sets the trustme flag when calling submit, it must be called by a process whose UID is that of trusted mail submitter (generally only root and mmdf).

The options available are:

-D: places the program in debugging mode. The message is written to stdout instead of handed to the mail system (mmdf/submit) and many debugging printfs are turned on.
-c: can be used to specify the channel into which the mail is being submitted. The following argument must be the name of a valid MMDF channel.
-h: followed by a host name specifies the host from which the message originated. -v is like -h, but assumes the host name is in reverse domain order as in the UK JNTMAIL protocol.
-s: specifies the sender of the message. The sender string must follow in the next argument.
-M?: indicates the mode for the program to allow it to accept different input formats. -Mj indicates the input will be in in JNT mail file format with the addresses at the head of the file. If this is not specified, then the addresses must be given as the last arguments on the command line. -Ms is reserved for specifying Batch-SMTP input format.

BUGS

This is a new channel and has not been widely tested, but will continue to be supported in future versions. Documentation of this channel is sparse at this time.