MAIL.LOCAL(8) | System Manager's Manual | MAIL.LOCAL(8) |
mail.local
— store
mail in a mailbox
mail.local |
[-l ] [-f
from] 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:
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.
If the [-l
] flag is specified mailbox
locking is done with username.lock
files. Otherwise,
the mailbox is exclusively locked with
flock(2) while mail is
appended.
If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3), the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
TZ
The mail.local
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
A superset of mail.local
(handling mailbox
reading as well as mail delivery) appeared in
Version 7 AT&T UNIX as the program
mail(1).
December 11, 1993 | NetBSD 10.99 |