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40 .Nd store mail in a mailbox
48 reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each
54 must be a valid user name.
56 The options are as follows:
57 .Bl -tag -width xxxfrom
59 Specify the sender's name.
61 Turn off the attempts to notify the
66 Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty
67 line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''.
68 A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp
69 is prepended to each delivered mail message.
70 A blank line is appended to each message.
71 A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message
72 which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line.
74 The mail files are exclusively locked with
76 while mail is appended.
78 If the ``biff'' service is returned by
80 the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
84 utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
86 .Bl -tag -width indent
88 Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.
91 .Bl -tag -width /var/tmp/local.XXXXXX -compact
92 .It Pa /var/tmp/local.XXXXXX
95 user's mailbox directory
100 .Xr getservbyname 3 ,
106 (handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery)