MAIL.LOCAL(8) | Maintenance Commands and Procedures | MAIL.LOCAL(8) |
mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
/usr/lib/mail.local [-f sender] [-d] recipient
mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each user's mail file (mailbox). This program is intended to be used by sendmail(8) as a mail delivery agent for local mail. It is not a user interface agent.
Messages are appended to the user's mail file in the /var/mail directory. The user must be a valid user name.
Each delivered mail message in the mailbox is preceded by a "Unix From line" with the following format:
From sender_address time_stamp
The sender_address is extracted from the SMTP envelope address (the envelope address is specified with the -f option).
A trailing blank line is also added to the end of each message.
The mail files are locked with a .lock file while mail is appended.
The mail files are created with mode 660, owner is set to recipient, and group is set to mail. If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3SOCKET), the biff server is notified of delivered mail. This program also computes the Content-Length: header which will be used by the mailbox reader to mark the message boundary.
The following options are supported:
-f sender
-d
-l
-r from
-7
-b
The following operand is supported:
recipient
TZ
The following exit values are returned:
0
>0
/tmp/local.XXXXXX
/tmp/lochd.XXXXXX
/var/mail/user_name
mail(1), getservbyname(3SOCKET), attributes(7), comsat(8), sendmail(8)
April 11, 1997 | OmniOS |