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.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" @(#)mail.local.8 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/11/93
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.\" $Id$
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.Dd December 11, 1993
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.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm mail.local
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.Nd store mail in a mailbox
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Nm mail.local
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.Op Fl f Ar from
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1996-04-13 11:44:12 +00:00
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.Op Fl b
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.Ar user ...
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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.Nm Mail.local
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reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each
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.Ar user's
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.Pa mail
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file.
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The
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.Ar user
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must be a valid user name.
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.Pp
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The options are as follows:
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.Bl -tag -width xxxfrom
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.It Fl f Ar from
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Specify the sender's name.
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.It Fl b
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Turn off the attempts to notify the
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.Dq biff
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service.
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.El
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.Pp
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Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty
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line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''.
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A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp
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is prepended to each delivered mail message.
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A blank line is appended to each message.
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A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message
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which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line.
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.Pp
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The mail files are exclusively locked with
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.Xr flock 2
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while mail is appended.
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.Pp
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If the ``biff'' service is returned by
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.Xr getservbyname 3 ,
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the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm mail.local
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utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
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.Sh ENVIRONMENT
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Ev TZ
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Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
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.El
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width /tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact
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.It Pa /tmp/local.XXXXXX
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temporary files
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.It Pa /var/mail/user
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user's mailbox directory
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr mail 1 ,
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.Xr flock 2 ,
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.Xr getservbyname 3 ,
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.Xr comsat 8 ,
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.Xr sendmail 8
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.Sh HISTORY
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A superset of
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.Nm mail.local
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(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery)
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appeared in
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.At v7 .
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as the program
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.Nm mail .
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