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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1990 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"     @(#)delivermail.8      6.6 (Berkeley) 6/26/90
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .Dd June 26, 1990
        !             8: .Dt DELIVERMAIL 8
        !             9: .Os ATT 7th
        !            10: .Sh NAME
        !            11: .Nm delivermail
        !            12: .Nd send or receive mail among users
        !            13: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            14: .Nm delivermail
        !            15: .Op Ic +
        !            16: .Op Fl i
        !            17: .Op Ar person
        !            18: .Op \&...
        !            19: .Nm delivermail
        !            20: .Op Ic +
        !            21: .Op Fl i
        !            22: .Fl f
        !            23: .Ar file
        !            24: .Pp
        !            25: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            26: Note: This is the old version 7 UNIX system mail program.  The default
        !            27: .Nm mail
        !            28: command is described in
        !            29: .Xr Mail  1  .
        !            30: .Pp
        !            31: .Nm Mail
        !            32: with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message,
        !            33: in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument
        !            34: .Ic +
        !            35: displays the mail messages in first-in, first-out order.
        !            36: For each message, it reads a line from the standard input
        !            37: to direct disposition of the message.
        !            38: .Tw Fl
        !            39: .Tp Li newline
        !            40: Go on to next message.
        !            41: .Tp Ic d
        !            42: Delete message and go on to the next.
        !            43: .Tp Ic p
        !            44: Print message again.
        !            45: .Tp Fl
        !            46: Go back to previous message.
        !            47: .Tc Ic s
        !            48: .Op Ar file
        !            49: .Cx \&...
        !            50: .Cx
        !            51: Save the message in the named
        !            52: .Ar files
        !            53: (`mbox' default).
        !            54: .Tc Ic w
        !            55: .Op Ar file
        !            56: .Cx \&...
        !            57: .Cx
        !            58: Save the message, without a header, in the named
        !            59: .Ar files ,
        !            60: .Pa mbox
        !            61: is the default.
        !            62: .Tc Ic m
        !            63: .Op Ar person
        !            64: .Cx \&...
        !            65: .Cx
        !            66: Mail the message to the named
        !            67: .Ar persons
        !            68: (yourself is default).
        !            69: .Tp Li EOT
        !            70: (control-D)
        !            71: Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.
        !            72: .Tp Ic q
        !            73: Same as
        !            74: .Li EOT .
        !            75: .Tc Ic \&!
        !            76: .Ar command
        !            77: .Cx
        !            78: Escape to the Shell to do
        !            79: .Ar command  .
        !            80: .Tp Ic \&*
        !            81: Print a command summary.
        !            82: .Tp
        !            83: .Pp
        !            84: An interrupt normally terminates the
        !            85: .Ar mail
        !            86: command; the mail file is unchanged.  The optional argument
        !            87: .Fl i
        !            88: tells
        !            89: .Ar mail
        !            90: to continue after interrupts.
        !            91: .Pp
        !            92: When
        !            93: .Ar persons
        !            94: are named,
        !            95: .Ar mail
        !            96: takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.')
        !            97: and adds it to each
        !            98: .Sf Ar person \'s
        !            99: .Pa mail
        !           100: file.  The message is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark.
        !           101: Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'.  A
        !           102: .Ar person
        !           103: is usually a user name recognized by
        !           104: .Xr login  1  .
        !           105: To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix
        !           106: .Ar person
        !           107: by the system name and exclamation mark (see
        !           108: .Xr uucp  1  ) .
        !           109: .Pp
        !           110: The
        !           111: .Fl f
        !           112: option causes the named file, for example,
        !           113: .Pa mbox ,
        !           114: to be printed as if it were the mail file.
        !           115: .Pp
        !           116: When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.
        !           117: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
        !           118: .Tw Fl
        !           119: .Tp Ev HOME
        !           120: The
        !           121: .Ev HOME
        !           122: variable is used by
        !           123: .Nm delivermail
        !           124: to find the file
        !           125: .Pa mbox.
        !           126: .Tp Ev HOSTALIASES
        !           127: Used to find host aliases.
        !           128: .Tp Ev NAME
        !           129: .Nm Delivermail
        !           130: extracts the users full name from the
        !           131: .Ev NAME
        !           132: variable.
        !           133: .Tp Ev TZ
        !           134: Used to set the appropriate time zone
        !           135: on the postmark.
        !           136: .Sh FILES
        !           137: .Dw /var/spool/mail/*
        !           138: .Di L
        !           139: .Dp Pa /etc/passwd
        !           140: to identify sender and locate persons
        !           141: .Dp Pa /var/spool/mail/*
        !           142: incoming mail for user *
        !           143: .Dp Pa mbox
        !           144: saved mail
        !           145: .Dp Pa /tmp/ma*
        !           146: temp file
        !           147: .Dp Pa dead.letter
        !           148: unmailable text
        !           149: .Dp
        !           150: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !           151: .Xr Mail 1 ,
        !           152: .Xr write 1 ,
        !           153: .Xr uucp 1 ,
        !           154: .Xr uux 1 ,
        !           155: .Xr xsend 1 ,
        !           156: .Xr sendmail 8
        !           157: .Sh HISTORY
        !           158: .Nm Delivermail
        !           159: appeared in Version 7 AT&T Unix as the program
        !           160: .Nm mail.
        !           161: .Sh BUGS
        !           162: Race conditions sometimes result in a failure to remove a lock file.
        !           163: .Pp
        !           164: Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by
        !           165: .Xr xsend  1  .
        !           166: An installation can overcome this by making
        !           167: .Nm mail
        !           168: a set-user-id command that owns the mail directory.

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