mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
mail.local [
-7] [
-b] [
-d] [
-D mbdb]
[
-l] [
-f from|
-r from] [
-h
filename ]
user ...
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.
- -b
- Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a
mailbox exceeds quota.
- -d
- Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility).
This option has no effect.
-
-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().
-
-f from
- Specify the sender's name.
- -l
- Turn on LMTP mode.
-
-r from
- Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).
Same as -f.
-
-h filename
- Store incoming mail in filename in the user's home
directory instead of a system mail spool directory.
The next options are only available if
mail.local has been compiled with
-DHASHSPOOL.
-
-H hashtypehashdepth
- 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.
-
-p path
- Specify an alternate mail spool path.
- -n
- 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 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.
- TZ
- Used to set the appropriate time zone on the
timestamp.
- /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
mail(1),
xsend(1),
flock(2),
getservbyname(3),
comsat(8),
sendmail(8)
mail.local 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.
A superset of
mail.local (handling mailbox reading as well as mail
delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX as the program
mail.