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

NAME
       mail.local - store mail in a mailbox

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

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	direc‐
       tory. 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  get‐
       servbyname(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.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -f sender    Specifies the "envelope from address" of the message. This
		    flag is technically optional,  but should be used.

       -d	    Specifies the recipient of the message. This flag is  also
		    optional and is supported here for backward compatibility.
		    That is, mail.local recipient is the same as mail.local -d
		    recipient.

       -l	    Turn on LMTP mode.

       -r from	    Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).

       -7	    Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.

       -b	    Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a
		    mailbox exceeds quota.

OPERANDS
       The following operand is supported:

       recipient    The recipient of the mail message.

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

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Successful operation.

       >0    An error occurred.

FILES
       /tmp/local.XXXXXX      temporary files

       /tmp/lochd.XXXXXX      temporary files

       /var/mail/user_name    user's mail file

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	     ATTRIBUTE VALUE	    │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │service/network/smtp/sendmail │
       └─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       mail(1),	    comsat(1M),	    sendmail(1M),      getservbyname(3SOCKET),
       attributes(5)

SunOS 5.11			  11 Apr 1997			mail.local(1M)
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