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author | Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-08-03 05:56:20 +0000 |
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committer | Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-08-03 05:56:20 +0000 |
commit | c2aa98e247e56d5266d789dfc9b90b524b0019fe (patch) | |
tree | 0772be9f4640bcba9db4a0de9e79a39ad377d80b /contrib/sendmail/mail.local/mail.local.8 | |
parent | ff37c899d76b8a843614fb348674c7e94e4f53ce (diff) | |
download | src-c2aa98e247e56d5266d789dfc9b90b524b0019fe.tar.gz src-c2aa98e247e56d5266d789dfc9b90b524b0019fe.zip |
Import sendmail-8.9.1 (slightly trimmed) onto a fresh branch undervendor/sendmail/8.9.1
src/contrib as per various discussions. I will copy across our changes
and then point the Makefiles across once the dust has settled..
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/vendor/sendmail/dist/; revision=38032
svn path=/vendor/sendmail/8.9.1/; revision=38034; tag=vendor/sendmail/8.9.1
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diff --git a/contrib/sendmail/mail.local/mail.local.8 b/contrib/sendmail/mail.local/mail.local.8 new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..e872fbedadf3 --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/sendmail/mail.local/mail.local.8 @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Sendmail, Inc. All rights reserved. +.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set +.\" forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of +.\" the sendmail distribution. +.\" +.\" +.\" @(#)mail.local.8 8.7 (Berkeley) 5/19/98 +.\" +.Dd May 19, 1998 +.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm mail.local +.Nd store mail in a mailbox +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm mail.local +.Op Fl f Ar from +.Ar user ... +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm Mail.local +reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each +.Ar user's +.Pa mail +file. +The +.Ar user +must be a valid user name. +.Pp +The options are as follows: +.Bl -tag -width xxxfrom +.It Fl f Ar from +Specify the sender's name. +.El +.Pp +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). +.Pp +The mail files are exclusively locked with +.Xr flock 2 +while mail is appended, +and a +.Pa user.lock +file also is created while the mailbox is locked +for compatibility with older MUAs. +.Pp +If the ``biff'' service is returned by +.Xr getservbyname 3 , +the biff server is notified of delivered mail. +.Pp +The +.Nm mail.local +utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. +.Sh ENVIRONMENT +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Ev TZ +Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. +.El +.Sh FILES +.Bl -tag -width /tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact +.It Pa /tmp/local.XXXXXX +temporary files +.It Pa /var/mail/user +user's mailbox directory +.It Pa /var/mail/user.lock +lock file for a user's mailbox +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr mail 1 , +.Xr xsend 1 , +.Xr flock 2 , +.Xr getservbyname 3 , +.Xr comsat 8 , +.Xr sendmail 8 +.Sh HISTORY +A superset of +.Nm mail.local +(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) +appeared in +.At v7 . +as the program +.Nm mail . |