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mail.local - store mail in a mailbox

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mmaaiill..llooccaall [--77] [--bb] [--dd] [--DD _m_b_d_b] [--ll] [--ff _f_r_o_m|--rr _f_r_o_m] [--hh _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e

] _u_s_e_r _._._.

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MMaaiill..llooccaall reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it

to each _u_s_e_r_'_s mmaaiill file. The _u_s_e_r must be a valid user name.

The options are as follows:

--77 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.

--bb Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a

mailbox exceeds quota.

--dd Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility).

This option has no effect.

--DD _m_b_d_b 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().

--ff _f_r_o_m Specify the sender's name.

--ll Turn on LMTP mode.

--rr _f_r_o_m Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility). Same

as -f.

--hh _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e

Store incoming mail in _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e in the user's home directory

instead of a system mail spool directory.

The next options are only available if mmaaiill..llooccaall has been compiled

with -DHASHSPOOL.

--HH _h_a_s_h_t_y_p_e_h_a_s_h_d_e_p_t_h

Select hashed mail directories. Valid hash types are uu for user

name and mm for MD5 (requires compilation with -DHASHSPOOLMD5).

Example: --HH _u_2 selects user name hashing with a hash depth of 2.

Note: there must be no space between the hash type and the

depth.

--pp _p_a_t_h

Specify an alternate mail spool path.

--nn Specify that the domain part of recipient addresses in LMTP mode

should not be stripped.

Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty line

followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. A line con-

taining 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 '' fol-

lowing a blank line).

The mail files are exclusively locked with flock(2) while mail is

appended, and a uusseerr..lloocckk 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 mmaaiill..llooccaall utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

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TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.

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/tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files

/var/mail/user user's default mailbox directory

/var/mail/user.lock lock file for a user's default mailbox

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mail(1), xsend(1), flock(2), getservbyname(3), comsat(8), sendmail(8)

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mmaaiill..llooccaall escapes only "^From " lines that follow an empty line. If

all lines starting with "From " should be escaped, use the 'E' flag for

the local mailer in the sendmail.cf file.

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A superset of mmaaiill..llooccaall (handling mailbox reading as well as mail

delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX as the program mmaaiill.

$Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:51 $ MAIL.LOCAL(8)