MAIL.LOCAL(8) | System Manager's Manual | MAIL.LOCAL(8) |
mail.local
—
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
mail.local
utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
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 9.4 |