mail.local(1m)

1mail.local(1M)          System Administration Commands          mail.local(1M)
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NAME

6       mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
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SYNOPSIS

9       /usr/lib/mail.local [-f sender] [-d] recipient
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DESCRIPTION

13       mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it
14       to each user's mail file (mailbox). This program is intended to be used
15       by  sendmail(1M)  as  a mail delivery agent for local mail. It is not a
16       user interface agent.
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19       Messages are appended to the user's mail file in the  /var/mail  direc‐
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23       Each  delivered mail message in the mailbox is preceded by a "Unix From
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30       The sender_address is extracted from the  SMTP  envelope  address  (the
31       envelope address is specified with the -f option).
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34       A trailing blank line is also added to the end of each message.
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37       The mail files are locked with a .lock file while mail is appended.
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40       The  mail  files  are created with mode 660, owner is set to recipient,
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42       servbyname(3SOCKET),  the  biff  server  is notified of delivered mail.
43       This program also computes the Content-Length:  header  which  will  be
44       used by the mailbox reader to mark the message boundary.
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OPTIONS

47       The following options are supported:
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49       -f sender    Specifies the "envelope from address" of the message. This
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53       -d           Specifies the recipient of the message. This flag is  also
54                    optional and is supported here for backward compatibility.
55                    That is, mail.local recipient is the same as mail.local -d
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59       -l           Turn on LMTP mode.
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65       -7           Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.
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68       -b           Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a
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OPERANDS

73       The following operand is supported:
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75       recipient    The recipient of the mail message.
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ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

79       TZ    Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
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EXIT STATUS

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85       0     Successful operation.
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FILES

92       /tmp/local.XXXXXX      temporary files
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98       /var/mail/user_name    user's mail file
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ATTRIBUTES

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107       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
108       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
109       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
110       │Availability                 │SUNWsndmu                    │
111       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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