1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% 5.\" 6.\" @(#)mail.local.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 7.\" 8.Dd 9.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8 10.Os 11.Sh NAME 12.Nm mail.local 13.Nd store mail in a mailbox 14.Sh SYNOPSIS 15.Nm mail.local 16.Op Fl f Ar from 17.Ar user ... 18.Sh DESCRIPTION 19.Nm Mail.local 20reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each 21.Ar user 's 22.Pa mail 23file. 24The 25.Ar user 26must be a valid user name. 27.Pp 28The options are as follows: 29.Bl -tag -width xxxfrom 30.It Fl f Ar from 31Specify the sender's name. 32.El 33.Pp 34Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty 35line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. 36A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp 37is prepended to each delivered mail message. 38A blank line is appended to each message. 39A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message 40which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line. 41.Pp 42The mail files are exclusively locked with 43.Xr flock 2 44while mail is appended. 45.Pp 46If the ``biff'' service is returned by 47.Xr getservbyname 3 , 48the biff server is notified of delivered mail. 49.Pp 50The 51.Nm mail.local 52utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 53.Sh ENVIRONMENT 54.Bl -tag -width indent 55.It Ev TZ 56Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. 57.El 58.Sh FILES 59.Bl -tag -width /tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact 60.It Pa /tmp/local.XXXXXX 61temporary files 62.It Pa /var/mail/user 63user's mailbox directory 64.El 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr mail 1 , 67.Xr xsend 1 , 68.Xr flock 2 , 69.Xr getservbyname 3 , 70.Xr comsat 8 , 71.Xr sendmail 8 72.Sh HISTORY 73A superset of 74.Nm mail.local 75(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) 76appeared in 77.At v7 . 78as the program 79.Nm mail . 80