harvey/sys/man/4/upasfs

.TH UPASFS 4
.SH NAME
upasfs, startupasfs \- mail file server
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B upas/fs
[
.B -f
.I mailbox
] [
.B -bnps
] [
.B -m
.I mntpoint
]
.PP
.B startupasfs
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Fs
is a user level file system that reads mailboxes and presents them as a file
system.
A user normally starts
.I fs
in his/her profile after starting
.IR plumber (4)
and before starting
a window system, such as
.IR rio (1)
or
.IR acme (1).
The file system is used by
.I nedmail
and
.IR acme (1)'s
mail reader to parse messages.
.I Fs
also generates plumbing messages used by
.IR biff
and
.IR faces (1)
to provide mail announcements.
.PP
.I Startupasfs
is a shell script suitable for use in one's profile.
It runs
.B "fs -s"
for the invoking user if none is already running,
and always mounts the user's posted
.I fs
on
.BR /mail/fs .
.PP
The mailbox itself becomes a directory under
.BR /mail/fs .
Each message in the mailbox becomes a numbered directory in the
mailbox directory, and each attachment becomes a numbered directory
in the message directory.  Since an attachment may itself be a mail message,
this structure can recurse ad nauseam.
.PP
Each message and attachment directory contains the files:
.TP 1.4i
.B body
.PD 0
the message minus the RFC822 style headers
.TP
.B cc
the address(es) from the CC: header
.TP
.B date
the date in the message, or if none, the time of delivery
.TP
.B digest
an SHA1 digest of the message contents
.TP
.B disposition
.B inline
or
.B file
.TP
.B filename
a name to use to file an attachment
.TP
.B from
the from address in the From: header, or if none,
the address on the envelope.
.TP
.B header
the RFC822 headers
.TP
.B info
described below, essentially a summary of the header info
.TP
.B inreplyto
contents of the
.B in-reply-to:
header
.TP
.B mimeheader
the mime headers
.TP
.B raw
the undecoded MIME message
.TP
.B rawbody
the undecoded message body
.TP
.B rawheader
the undecoded message header
.TP
.B replyto
the address to send any replies to.
.TP
.B subject
the contents of the subject line
.TP
.B to
the address(es) from the To: line.
.TP
.B type
the MIME content type
.TP
.B unixheader
the envelope header from the mailbox
.PD
.PP
The
.B info
file contains the following information, one item per line.  Lists
of addresses are single-space separated.
.LP
.2C
.PD 0
.LP
.TP 2i
.I "sender address
.TP
.I "recipient addresses
.TP
.I "cc addresses
.TP
.I "reply address
.TP
.I "envelope date
.TP
.I "subject
.TP
.I "MIME content type
.TP
.I "MIME disposition
.TP
.I filename
.TP
.I "SHA1 digest
.TP
.I "bcc addresses
.TP
.I "in-reply-to: contents
.TP
.I "RFC822 date
.TP
.I "message senders
.TP
.I "message id
.TP
.I "number of lines in body
.LP
.1C
.PD
.PP
Deleting message directories causes the message to be removed from
the mailbox.
.PP
The mailbox is reread and the structure updated
whenever the mailbox changes.  Message directories are
not renumbered.
.PP
The file
.B /mail/fs/ctl
is used to direct
.I fs
to open/close new mailboxes or to delete groups of messages atomically.
The messages that can be written to this file are:
.TF "delete\fI mboxname number ...\fP
.TP
.BI open " path mboxname"
opens a new mailbox.
.I path
is the file to open, and
.I mboxname
is the name that appears under
.BR /mail/fs .
.TP
.BI close " mboxname"
close
.IR mboxname .
The close takes affect only after all files open under
.BI /mail/fs/ mboxname
have been closed.
.TP
.BI delete " mboxname number ..."
Delete the messages with the given numbers from
.IR mboxname.
.PD
.PP
The options are:
.TF "-f\fI file
.TP
.BI -f file
use
.I file
as the mailbox instead of the default,
.BI /mail/box/ username /mbox.
.PD 0
.TP
.B -b
stands for biffing.  Each time new mail
is received, a message is printed to standard
output containing the sender address, subject,
and number of bytes.  It is intended for
people telnetting in who want mail announcements.
.TP
.B -n
Don't open a mailbox initially.  Overridden by -f.
.TP
.B -p
turn off plumbing.  Unless this is specified,
.I fs
sends a message to the plumb port,
.BR seemail ,
from source
.B mailfs
for each message received or deleted.
The message contains the attributes
.BI sender= "<contents of " from " file>,"
.BR filetype=mail ,
.BR "mailtype=deleted\fI or \fPnew" ,
and
.BI length= "<message length in bytes>."
The contents of the message is the full path
name of the directory representing the message.
.TP
.B -s
causes
.I fs
to post itself in
.B /srv
with a name of the form
.BI /srv/upasfs. user.
.TP
.B -m
specifies a mount point other than
.BR /mail/fs .
.PD
.PP
.I Fs
will exit once all references to its directory
have disappeared.
.PP
.I Fs
interprets mailbox file names of the form
.BI / proto / host / user
to mean access an account on
.I host
using the given protocol.
Authentication is delegated to
.IR factotum (4).
The final
.BI / user
may be omitted, in which case
the user name is gleaned from the key held by
.IR factotum .
The following protocols are supported:
.PP
.TF apoptls
.TP
.B pop
cleartext POP with password authentication
.TP
.B apop
cleartext POP with challenge-response (APOP) authentication
.TP
.B pops
.TP
.B poptls
TLS-encrypted POP with password authentication
.TP
.B apops
.TP
.B apoptls
TLS-encrypted POP with challenge-response (APOP) authentication
.TP
.B imap
cleartext IMAP
.TP
.B imaps
TLS-encrypted IMAP
.PD
.PP
The two IMAP protocols allow an optional fourth field
specifying a mailbox name, for example
.BR /imap/server/user/stored .
.PP
.B Poptls
and
.B apoptls
connect to port 110 in plaintext and start TLS using the POP
STLS command.
.B Pops
and
.B apops
connect to port 995 and start TLS before initiating the POP conversation.
.B Imaps
connects to port 993 and starts TLS before initiating the IMAP conversation.
There should probably be an
.B imaptls
protocol as well.
.RB ( Imaptls
would connect to port 143 in plaintext and start TLS using the IMAP
STARTTLS command.
(That's the nice thing about standards\(emthere's so many to choose from.))
.SH FILES
.TF /mail/box/*/dead.letter
.TP
.B /mail/box/*
mail directories
.TP
.B /mail/box/*/mbox
mailbox files
.TP
.B /mail/box/*/L.reading
mutual exclusion lock for multiple mbox readers
.TP
.B /mail/box/*/L.mbox
mutual exclusion lock for altering mbox
.br
.ne 3
.SH SOURCE
.B /sys/src/cmd/upas/fs
.br
.B /rc/bin/startupasfs
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IR aliasmail (8),
.IR faces (1),
.IR filter (1),
.IR mail (1),
.IR marshal (1),
.IR mlmgr (1),
.IR nedmail (1),
.IR qer (8),
.IR rewrite (6),
.IR send (8),
.IR upasfs (4)