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$Id: mail.local.8,v 8.23 2001/04/05 23:27:35 gshapiro Exp $

$FreeBSD: head/contrib/sendmail/mail.local/mail.local.8 98125 2002-06-11 21:16:51Z gshapiro $

mail.local - store mail in a mailbox mail.local [ -7 "] [" -B "] [" -b "] [" -d "] [" -D mbdb ] [ -l "] [" -s "] [" -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:

1i -7 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.

-B Turn off the attempts to notify the .Dq biff service.

-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.

-s Turn off the .Xr fsync 2 call that forces the mailbox to be committed to disk before returning a .Dq success status.

-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.

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.

Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.

0.2v

2.2i /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), 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 .