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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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