MAIL.LOCAL(8) MAIL.LOCAL(8) NNAAMMEE mail.local - store mail in a mailbox SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS mmaaiill..llooccaall [--77] [--bb] [--dd] [--DD _m_b_d_b] [--ll] [--ff _f_r_o_m|--rr _f_r_o_m] [--hh _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e ] _u_s_e_r _._._. DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN MMaaiill..llooccaall reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each _u_s_e_r_'_s mmaaiill file. The _u_s_e_r must be a valid user name. The options are as follows: --77 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode. --bb Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a mailbox exceeds quota. --dd Specify this is a delivery (for backward compat- ibility). This option has no effect. --DD _m_b_d_b Specify the name of the mailbox database which is used to look up local recipient names. This option defaults to "pw", which means use getpw- nam(). --ff _f_r_o_m Specify the sender's name. --ll Turn on LMTP mode. --rr _f_r_o_m Specify the sender's name (for backward compati- bility). Same as -f. --hh _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e Store incoming mail in _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e in the user's home directory instead of a system mail spool directory. 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 deliv- ered mail message. A blank line is appended to each mes- sage. 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). The mail files are exclusively locked with flock(2) while mail is appended, and a uusseerr..lloocckk file also is created while the mailbox is locked for compatibility with older MUAs. $Date: 2002/03/12 18:00:23 $ 1 MAIL.LOCAL(8) MAIL.LOCAL(8) If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3), the biff server is notified of delivered mail. The mmaaiill..llooccaall utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. EENNVVIIRROONNMMEENNTT TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the times- tamp. FFIILLEESS /tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files /var/mail/user user's default mailbox directory /var/mail/user.lock lock file for a user's default mail- box SSEEEE AALLSSOO mail(1), xsend(1), flock(2), getservbyname(3), comsat(8), sendmail(8) WWAARRNNIINNGG mmaaiill..llooccaall escapes only "^From " lines that follow an empty line. If all lines starting with "From " should be escaped, use the 'E' flag for the local mailer in the sendmail.cf file. HHIISSTTOORRYY A superset of mmaaiill..llooccaall (handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX as the program mmaaiill. $Date: 2002/03/12 18:00:23 $ 2