mail.local(1M)

NAME

mail.local − store mail in a mailbox

SYNOPSIS

/usr/lib/mail.local [ −f sender ] [ −d ] recipient

AVAILABILITY

SUNWcsu

DESCRIPTION

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(1M) 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 are preceded by a "Unix From line" with the following format:

From sender_address time_stamp

The sender_address is extracted from the From: header in the message. If the From: header is absent, the envelope address will be used. (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 will mode 660, owner is set to recipient and group is set to mail. If the “biff” service is returned by getservbyname(3N), 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 message boundary.

OPTIONS

−f sender specified the "envelope from address" of the message This flag is optional and is mainly here for backward compatibility.

−d specified the recipient of the message, this flag is also optional and is supported here for backward compatibility. (i.e mail.local recipient is the same as mail.local −d recipient)

ENVIRONMENT

TZ Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.

EXIT CODES

0 on success.

>0 if an error occurs.

FILES

/tmp/local.XXXXXX temporary files

/tmp/lochd.XXXXXX temporary files

/var/mail/user_name user’s mail file

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