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- .TH MAIL 1
- .SH NAME
- mail \- mail and mailboxes
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- .B mail
- [
- .I arg ...
- ]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- Mail is a shell script that invokes
- .IR nedmail (1),
- the mail reader,
- when no recipients appear on the command line and
- .IR marshal (1),
- the mail preparer,
- otherwise.
- All command line options are passed through.
- See the man pages for those two commands for
- more details.
- .PP
- Incoming mail for a user
- .I username
- is put in the file
- .BI /mail/box/ username /mbox
- unless either the file
- .BI /mail/box/ username /forward
- or
- .BI /mail/box/ username /pipeto
- exists.
- The mailbox must have append-only and exclusive-access mode
- (see
- .IR chmod (1)).
- A user must create his or her own mailbox using the
- .B -c
- option of
- .IR nedmail (1).
- Mailboxes are created writable (append-only) but not readable by others.
- .PP
- If the file
- .BI /mail/box/ username /forward
- exists and is readable by everyone, incoming mail
- will be forwarded to the addresses contained in the first line of the file.
- The file may contain multiple addresses.
- Forwarding loops are caught and resolved by local delivery.
- .PP
- If the file
- .BI /mail/box/ username /pipeto
- exists and is readable and executable by everyone,
- it will be run for each incoming message for the user.
- The message will be piped to it rather
- than appended to his/her mail box.
- The file is run as user
- .BR none .
- Its two arguments are the
- with arguments of the destination address
- (e.g.
- .BR local!gremlin )
- and the user's mail box path
- (e.g.
- .BR /mail/box/gremlin/mbox )
- .SH FILES
- .TF /mail/box/*/dead.letter
- .TP
- .B /sys/log/mail
- mail log file
- .TP
- .B /mail/box/*
- mail directories
- .TP
- .B /mail/box/*/mbox
- mailbox files
- .TP
- .B /mail/box/*/forward
- forwarding address(es)
- .TP
- .B /mail/box/*/pipeto
- mail filter
- .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
- .TP
- .B /lib/face/48x48x?
- directories of icons for
- .I seemail
- .SH SOURCE
- .TP
- .B /rc/bin/mail
- .SH "SEE ALSO"
- .IR aliasmail (8),
- .IR faces (1),
- .IR filter (1),
- .IR marshal (1),
- .IR mlmgr (1),
- .IR nedmail (1),
- .IR qer (8),
- .IR rewrite (6),
- .IR send (8),
- .IR smtp (8),
- .IR upasfs (4)
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