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13 .TH MAIL.LOCAL 8 "$Date: 2001/04/05 23:27:35 $"
16 \- store mail in a mailbox
19 .RB [ \-7 "] [" \-B "] [" \-b "] [" \-d "] [" \-D
21 .RB [ \-l "] [" \-s "] [" \-f
29 reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each
34 must be a valid user name.
36 The options are as follows:
39 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.
42 Turn off the attempts to notify the
47 Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error
48 if a mailbox exceeds quota.
51 Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility).
52 This option has no effect.
55 Specify the name of the mailbox database
56 which is used to look up local recipient names.
57 This option defaults to "pw", which means use getpwnam().
60 Specify the sender's name.
68 call that forces the mailbox to be committed to disk before returning a
73 Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).
77 Store incoming mail in \fIfilename\fR in the user's home directory instead
78 of a system mail spool directory.
80 Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty
81 line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''.
82 A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp
83 is prepended to each delivered mail message.
84 A blank line is appended to each message.
85 A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message
86 which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line
88 a line beginning with the five characters
89 ``From '' following a blank line).
91 The mail files are exclusively locked with
93 while mail is appended,
96 file also is created while the mailbox is locked
97 for compatibility with older MUAs.
99 If the ``biff'' service is returned by
101 the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
105 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
108 Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
116 user's default mailbox directory
119 lock file for a user's default mailbox
129 escapes only "^From " lines that follow an empty line.
130 If all lines starting with "From " should be escaped,
131 use the 'E' flag for the local mailer in the
136 (handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery)
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