1MAIL.LOCAL(8) 386BSD System Manager's Manual MAIL.LOCAL(8) 2 3NNAAMMEE 4 mmaaiill..llooccaall - store mail in a mailbox 5 6SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS 7 mmaaiill..llooccaall [--ff _f_r_o_m] _u_s_e_r ... 8 9DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN 10 MMaaiill..llooccaall reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it 11 to each _u_s_e_r '_s _m_a_i_l file. The _u_s_e_r must be a valid user name. 12 13 The options are as follows: 14 15 --ff _f_r_o_m Specify the sender's name. 16 17 Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty line 18 followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. A line 19 containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp is 20 prepended to each delivered mail message. A blank line is appended to 21 each message. A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line 22 in the message which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line. 23 24 The mail files are exclusively locked with flock(2) while mail is 25 appended. 26 27 If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3), the biff server 28 is notified of delivered mail. 29 30 The mmaaiill..llooccaall utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 31 32EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT 33 TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. 34 35FFIILLEESS 36 /tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files 37 /var/mail/user user's mailbox directory 38 39SSEEEE AALLSSOO 40 mail(1), xsend(1), flock(2), getservbyname(3), comsat(8), 41 sendmail(8) 42 43HHIISSTTOORRYY 44 A superset of mmaaiill..llooccaall (handling mailbox reading as well as mail 45 delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. as the program mmaaiill. 46 47BSD Experimental April 27, 1991 1 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67