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2: .TH POST 1
3: .SH NAME
4: post \(mi mail and directory service by name
5: .SH SYNOPSIS
6: .B post
7: [
8: .I option ...
9: ]
10: [
11: .I person ...
12: ]
13: .PP
14: .B postext
15: [
16: .B -c
17: .I directory
18: ]
19: .I extension ...
20: .PP
21: .B postorg
22: [
23: .B -c
24: .I directory
25: ]
26: .I organization
27: .PP
28: .B postorg
29: [
30: .B -h
31: .I directory
32: ]
33: .PP
34: .B postsx
35: [
36: .B -c
37: .I directory
38: ]
39: .I person ...
40: .SH DESCRIPTION
41: .I Post
42: mail and gives directory assistance based on
43: a corporate database.
44: Aside from addressing, it reads and sends mail in
45: the manner of
46: .IR mail (1).
47: .PP
48: Mail may be sent to a
49: .I person
50: by name:
51: .IP
52: .IB first . middle . lastname :\f2dir\f5:\f2org\f5:\f2loc\f5:paper
53: .LP
54: where partial fields are valid and every field except
55: .I lastname
56: may be omitted.
57: .I Dir
58: is a phone book, such as
59: .L attbl
60: or
61: .LR attc ;
62: .I loc
63: is a location code such as
64: .LR ih ,
65: and
66: .I org
67: is an organization number such as
68: .L 45
69: or
70: .LR 11271 ;
71: .L paper
72: sends paper mail.
73: This happens automatically for persons with no electronic mail address.
74: If a
75: .I person
76: argument is ambiguous,
77: .I post
78: gives a list of possibilities
79: to choose from.
80: .PP
81: Mail may also be sent to a
82: .I person
83: specifed as
84: .IB system ! userid
85: for electronic mail.
86: .PP
87: Options are:
88: .TP
89: .BI -c " directory"
90: Search for
91: .I persons
92: only in the given
93: .I directory.
94: .TP
95: .B -p
96: Send paper mail.
97: .TP
98: .B -w
99: Directory assistance.
100: Give the full directory entry for each
101: .I person.
102: The answer comes by mail if your machine is a remote post office.
103: .PP
104: The following options are not to be accompanied by
105: .I persons
106: or
107: .I addresses.
108: .TP
109: .BI -A " dafile"
110: Send mail to all names in
111: .I dafile
112: where
113: .I dafile
114: is output from a
115: .B -w
116: request.
117: .TP
118: .BR -B " [ \fImbox\fR ]"
119: Read mail from a specified
120: .I mbox
121: file or from the default
122: .LR $HOME/mbox .
123: .TP
124: .BR -D " [ \fIdirectory\fR ]"
125: Give modification times for the
126: .I directory
127: or for all
128: .I post
129: directories if no directory name is given.
130: .TP
131: .B -S
132: Start an interactive session to send
133: change-of-address notices to
134: an update site.
135: .TP
136: .B -v
137: Give the current version of
138: .I post
139: and tell whether the local post office is general,
140: .LR g ,
141: (has a directory) or remote,
142: .LR r ,
143: (no directory).
144: .TP
145: .B -X
146: Start an interactive set-up session.
147: Should be used by new users.
148: .PP
149: To maintain mailing lists or to avoid typing long addresses,
150: you may keep an address book
151: in
152: .L $HOME/.mailrc .
153: Each line in this file begins
154: with the word
155: .L alias
156: followed by
157: the alias and the
158: .I persons
159: or previous aliases that it stands for.
160: .PP
161: If environment variable
162: .BR POSTETC=ON ,
163: the
164: .IR passwd (5)
165: file is treated as a directory so that login names may be used as
166: .I persons.
167: In any case a login name on the local system
168: can be written
169: .BI ! userid.
170: .PP
171: .I Post
172: will ask for verification of recipient addresses
173: if environment variable
174: .BR CONFIRM=ON .
175: .PP
176: .I Post
177: searches directories sequentially.
178: The directory search path may be altered by setting the
179: environment variable
180: .B DIRPATH
181: similarly to
182: .B PATH
183: in
184: .IR sh (1).
185: .PP
186: .I Postext
187: is like
188: .LR "post -w" ,
189: but retrieves by phone number instead of by name:
190: .IP
191: .IB number : dir : loc :\f2org\fP
192: .LP
193: .I Postorg
194: retrieves by organization:
195: .IP
196: .IB org : dir : loc :\f2occlevel\fP
197: .LP
198: where
199: .I occlevel
200: is a (possibly partial) occupation level.
201: Option
202: .B -h
203: lists occupation levels.
204: .PP
205: .I Postsx
206: retrieves names phonetically similar to
207: .I persons.
208: .SH EXAMPLES
209: .TP
210: .B post s.j.griesmer
211: Send mail.
212: .TP
213: .B post -c attc -w smith
214: Who are all the smiths in attc?
215: .TP
216: .B post -w jackson:452:ih >dafile; post -A dafile
217: .PD
218: .SH FILES
219: .TF /usr/post/postlib/postversion
220: .TP
221: .F /usr/mail/*
222: mailboxes
223: .TP
224: .F dead.letter
225: unmailable text
226: .TP
227: .F $HOME/mail
228: default directory for secure saving of mail
229: .TP
230: .F $HOME/.mailrc
231: Mail options
232: .TP
233: .F $HOME/mbox
234: default mail repository
235: .TP
236: .F /usr/post/info/post/*db*
237: LLA database components
238: .TP
239: .F /usr/post/info/post/postsys
240: post administrative address
241: .TP
242: .F /usr/post/postlib/postoff
243: local and remote directories
244: .TP
245: .F /usr/post/postlib/postversion
246: version number
247: .TP
248: .F /usr/post/tmp/post/postlog
249: log of command executions
250: .PD
251: .SH SEE ALSO
252: .IR mail (1)
253: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
254: Exit status is 0 on total success,
255: 1 on lookup failure, 2 on partial failure (e.g. ambiguous entries).
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