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1.1 root 1: .TH BINMAIL 1 "16 November 1979"
2: .SH NAME
3: binmail \- send or receive mail among users
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B /bin/mail
6: [
7: .B +
8: ] [
9: .B \-i
10: ] [ person ] ...
11: .br
12: .B /bin/mail
13: .B "[ + ]"
14: [
15: .B \-i
16: ]
17: .B \-f
18: file
19: .LP
20: .SH DESCRIPTION
21: Note: This is the old version 7 UNIX system mail program. The default
22: .I mail
23: command is described in
24: .IR Mail (1),
25: and its binary is in the directory
26: .IR /usr/ucb .
27: .PP
28: .I mail
29: with no argument prints a user's mail, message-by-message,
30: in last-in, first-out order; the optional argument
31: .B +
32: displays the mail messages in first-in, first-out order.
33: For each message, it reads a line from the standard input
34: to direct disposition of the message.
35: .TP
36: newline
37: Go on to next message.
38: .TP
39: d
40: Delete message and go on to the next.
41: .TP
42: p
43: Print message again.
44: .TP
45: \-
46: Go back to previous message.
47: .TP
48: .RI "s [" " file " "] ..."
49: Save the message in the named
50: .I files
51: (`mbox' default).
52: .TP
53: .RI "w [" " file " "] ..."
54: Save the message, without a header, in the named
55: .I files
56: (`mbox' default).
57: .TP
58: .RI "m [" " person " "] ..."
59: Mail the message to the named
60: .I persons
61: (yourself is default).
62: .TP
63: EOT (control-D)
64: Put unexamined mail back in the mailbox and stop.
65: .TP
66: q
67: Same as EOT.
68: .TP
69: .RI ! command
70: Escape to the Shell to do
71: .IR command .
72: .TP
73: *
74: Print a command summary.
75: .PP
76: An interrupt normally terminates the
77: .I mail
78: command; the mail file is unchanged. The optional argument
79: .B \(mii
80: tells
81: .I mail
82: to continue after interrupts.
83: .PP
84: When
85: .I persons
86: are named,
87: .I mail
88: takes the standard input up to an end-of-file (or a line with just `.')
89: and adds it to each
90: .I person's
91: `mail' file. The message is preceded by the sender's name and a postmark.
92: Lines that look like postmarks are prepended with `>'. A
93: .I person
94: is usually a user name recognized by
95: .IR login (1).
96: To denote a recipient on a remote system, prefix
97: .I person
98: by the system name and exclamation mark (see
99: .IR uucp (1C)).
100: .PP
101: The
102: .B \-f
103: option causes the named file, for example, `mbox',
104: to be printed as if it were the mail file.
105: .PP
106: When a user logs in he is informed of the presence of mail.
107: .SH FILES
108: .ta \w'/usr/spool/mail/*.lock 'u
109: /etc/passwd to identify sender and locate persons
110: .br
111: .li
112: /usr/spool/mail/* incoming mail for user *
113: .br
114: mbox saved mail
115: .br
116: /tmp/ma* temp file
117: .br
118: /usr/spool/mail/*.lock lock for mail directory
119: .br
120: dead.letter unmailable text
121: .br
122: .SH "SEE ALSO"
123: Mail(1), write(1), uucp(1C), uux(1C), xsend(1), sendmail(8)
124: .SH BUGS
125: Race conditions sometimes result in a failure to remove a lock file.
126: .PP
127: Normally anybody can read your mail, unless it is sent by
128: .IR xsend (1).
129: An installation can overcome this by making
130: .I mail
131: a set-user-id command that owns the mail directory.
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