1mailcompat(1) User Commands mailcompat(1)
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6 mailcompat - provide SunOS compatibility for Solaris mailbox format
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9 mailcompat is a program to provide SunOS 4.x compatability for the
10 Solaris mailbox format. You would typically run mailcompat to be able
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15 Enabling mailcompat creates an entry in your .forward file, if it
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17 abling mailcompat will remove the entry from the .forward file, and if
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21 To execute mailcompat, log onto the Solaris mail server and enter mail‐
22 compat on the command line. Answer the queries provided by the program.
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25 See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailcompat when
26 encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
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29 Example 1 Examples of the mailcompat feature.
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32 The following example enables the mailcompat feature for the user
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36 example% mailcompat
37 This program can be used to store your mail in a format
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39 To enable the mailcompat feature a ".forward" file is created.
40 Would you like to enable the mailcompat feature? Y
41 Mailcompat feature ENABLED.Run mailcompat with no arguments to remove it
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47 The following example disables the mailcompat feature for the user
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51 example% mailcompat
52 This program can be used to store your mail in a format
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54 You have a .forward file in your home directory containing:
55 "|/usr/bin/mailcompat johns"
56 Would you like to remove it and disable the mailcompat feature? y
57 Back to normal reception of mail.
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63 ~/.forward list of recipients for forwarding messages
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67 See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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72 ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
73 │ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
74 ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
75 │Availability │SUNWcsu │
76 └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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79 mailx(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)
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83SunOS 5.11 4 Aug 1994 mailcompat(1)