1.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 13.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 16.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)mail.local.8 6.8 (Berkeley) 4/27/91 33.\" 34.Dd April 27, 1991 35.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm mail.local 39.Nd store mail in a mailbox 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.Nm mail.local 42.Op Fl f Ar from 43.Ar user ... 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45.Nm Mail.local 46reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each 47.Ar user 's 48.Pa mail 49file. 50The 51.Ar user 52must be a valid user name. 53.Pp 54The options are as follows: 55.Bl -tag -width xxxfrom 56.It Fl f Ar from 57Specify the sender's name. 58.El 59.Pp 60Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty 61line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. 62A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp 63is prepended to each delivered mail message. 64A blank line is appended to each message. 65A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message 66which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line. 67.Pp 68The mail files are exclusively locked with 69.Xr flock 2 70while mail is appended. 71.Pp 72If the ``biff'' service is returned by 73.Xr getservbyname 3 , 74the biff server is notified of delivered mail. 75.Pp 76The 77.Nm mail.local 78utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 79.Sh ENVIRONMENT 80.Bl -tag -width indent 81.It Ev TZ 82Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. 83.El 84.Sh FILES 85.Bl -tag -width /tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact 86.It Pa /tmp/local.XXXXXX 87temporary files 88.It Pa /var/mail/user 89user's mailbox directory 90.El 91.Sh SEE ALSO 92.Xr mail 1 , 93.Xr xsend 1 , 94.Xr flock 2 , 95.Xr getservbyname 3 , 96.Xr comsat 8 , 97.Xr sendmail 8 98.Sh HISTORY 99A superset of 100.Nm mail.local 101(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) 102appeared in 103.At v7 . 104as the program 105.Nm mail . 106