1.\" $NetBSD: mail.local.8,v 1.10 2002/02/08 01:30:08 ross Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" from: @(#)mail.local.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93 35.\" 36.Dd December 11, 1993 37.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm mail.local 41.Nd store mail in a mailbox 42.Sh SYNOPSIS 43.Nm 44.Op Fl l 45.Op Fl f Ar from 46.Ar user ... 47.Sh DESCRIPTION 48.Nm 49reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each 50.Ar user's 51.Pa mail 52file. 53The 54.Ar user 55must be a valid user name. 56.Pp 57The options are as follows: 58.Bl -tag -width xxxxxxx 59.It Fl f Ar from 60Specify the sender's name. 61.It Fl l 62Request that 63.Nm username.lock 64files be used for locking. 65.El 66.Pp 67Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty 68line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. 69A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp 70is prepended to each delivered mail message. 71A blank line is appended to each message. 72A greater-than character (``\*[Gt]'') is prepended to any line in the message 73which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line. 74.Pp 75If the 76.Op Fl l 77flag is specified mailbox locking is done with 78.Nm username.lock 79files. 80Otherwise, the mailbox is exclusively locked with 81.Xr flock 2 82while mail is appended. 83.Pp 84If the ``biff'' service is returned by 85.Xr getservbyname 3 , 86the biff server is notified of delivered mail. 87.Pp 88The 89.Nm 90utility exits 0 on success, and \*[Gt]0 if an error occurs. 91.Sh ENVIRONMENT 92.Bl -tag -width indent 93.It Ev TZ 94Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. 95.El 96.Sh FILES 97.Bl -tag -width /tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact 98.It Pa /tmp/local.XXXXXX 99temporary files 100.It Pa /var/mail/user 101user's mailbox directory 102.El 103.Sh SEE ALSO 104.Xr mail 1 , 105.Xr flock 2 , 106.Xr getservbyname 3 , 107.Xr comsat 8 , 108.Xr sendmail 8 109.Sh HISTORY 110A superset of 111.Nm 112(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) appeared in 113.At v7 114as the program 115.Xr mail 1 . 116