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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man8/mail.local.8 b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man8/mail.local.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..182fe59a --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-leap-15-6/man8/mail.local.8 @@ -0,0 +1,152 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2001, 2003 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers. +.\" 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. +.\" +.\" +.\" $Id: mail.local.8,v 8.26 2013-11-22 20:51:51 ca Exp $ +.\" +.TH MAIL.LOCAL 8 "$Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:51 $" +.SH NAME +mail.local +\- store mail in a mailbox +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mail.local +.RB [ \-7 "] [" \-b "] [" \-d "] [" \-D +.IR mbdb ] +.RB [ \-l "] [" \-f +\fIfrom\fR|\fB\-r\fR +.IR from ] +.RB [ \-h +\fIfilename\fR ] +.I "user ..." +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B Mail.local +reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each +.I user's +.B mail +file. The +.I user +must be a valid user name. +.PP +The options are as follows: +.TP 1i +.B \-7 +Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode. +.TP +.B \-b +Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error +if a mailbox exceeds quota. +.TP +.B \-d +Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility). +This option has no effect. +.TP +.BI \-D " mbdb" +Specify the name of the mailbox database +which is used to look up local recipient names. +This option defaults to "pw", which means use getpwnam(). +.TP +.BI \-f " from" +Specify the sender's name. +.TP +.B \-l +Turn on LMTP mode. +.TP +.BI \-r " from" +Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility). +Same as \-f. +.TP +.BI \-h " filename" +Store incoming mail in \fIfilename\fR in the user's home directory instead +of a system mail spool directory. +.PP +The next options are only available if +.B mail.local +has been compiled with -DHASHSPOOL. +.TP +.BI \-H " hashtypehashdepth" +Select hashed mail directories. +Valid hash types are +.B u +for user name and +.B m +for MD5 (requires compilation with -DHASHSPOOLMD5). +Example: +.BI \-H " u2" +selects user name hashing with a hash depth of 2. +Note: there must be no space between the hash type and the depth. +.TP +.BI \-p " path" +Specify an alternate mail spool path. +.TP +.BI \-n +Specify that the domain part of recipient addresses in LMTP mode +should not be stripped. +.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 +flock(2) +while mail is appended, +and a +.B user.lock +file also is created while the mailbox is locked +for compatibility with older MUAs. +.PP +If the ``biff'' service is returned by +getservbyname(3), +the biff server is notified of delivered mail. +.PP +The +.B mail.local +utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. +.SH ENVIRONMENT +.IP TZ +Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp. +.SH FILES +.PD 0.2v +.TP 2.2i +/tmp/local.XXXXXX +temporary files +.TP +/var/spool/mail/user +user's default mailbox directory +.TP +/var/spool/mail/user.lock +lock file for a user's default mailbox +.PD +.SH SEE ALSO +mail(1), +xsend(1), +flock(2), +getservbyname(3), +comsat(8), +sendmail(8) +.SH WARNING +.B mail.local +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. +.SH HISTORY +A superset of +.B mail.local +(handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) +appeared in +Version 7 AT&T UNIX +as the program +.BR mail . |