from(1) [mojave man page]

FROM(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   FROM(1)

NAME

     from -- print names of those who have sent mail

SYNOPSIS

     from [-c] [-s sender] [-f file] [user]

DESCRIPTION

     The from utility prints out the mail header lines from the invoker's mailbox.

     The following options are available:

     -c      Just print a count of messages and exit.

     -f file
	     The supplied file is examined instead of the invoker's mailbox.  If the -f option is used, the user argument should not be used.
	     Read from standard input if file name - is given.

     -s sender
	     Only mail from addresses containing the supplied string are printed.

     If user is given, the user's mailbox is examined instead of the invoker's own mailbox.  (Privileges are required.)

ENVIRONMENT

     MAIL	 If set, the location of the invoker's mailbox.  Otherwise, the default in /var/mail is used.

FILES

     /var/mail/*

SEE ALSO

     biff(1), mail(1)

HISTORY

     The from command appeared in 3.0BSD.

BSD
								 December 30, 1993							       BSD

MAIL.LOCAL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     MAIL.LOCAL(8)

NAME

       mail.local - store mail in a mailbox

SYNOPSIS

       mail.local [-7] [-b] [-d] [-D mbdb] [-l] [-f from|-r from] [-h filename ] user ...

DESCRIPTION

       Mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file and appends it to each user's mail file.  The user must be a valid user name.

       The options are as follows:

       -7	 Do not advertise 8BITMIME support in LMTP mode.

       -b	 Return a permanent error instead of a temporary error if a mailbox exceeds quota.

       -d	 Specify this is a delivery (for backward compatibility).  This option has no effect.

       -D mbdb	 Specify  the  name  of  the mailbox database which is used to look up local recipient names.  This option defaults to "pw", which
		 means use getpwnam().

       -f from	 Specify the sender's name.

       -l	 Turn on LMTP mode.

       -r from	 Specify the sender's name (for backward compatibility).  Same as -f.

       -h filename
		 Store incoming mail in filename in the user's home directory instead of a system mail spool directory.

       The next options are only available if mail.local has been compiled with -DHASHSPOOL.

       -H hashtypehashdepth
	      Select hashed mail directories.  Valid hash types are u for user name and m for  MD5  (requires  compilation  with  -DHASHSPOOLMD5).
	      Example: -H u2 selects user name hashing with a hash depth of 2.	Note: there must be no space between the hash type and the depth.

       -p path
	      Specify an alternate mail spool path.

       -n     Specify that the domain part of recipient addresses in LMTP mode should not be stripped.

       Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''.  A line con-
       taining the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp is prepended to each delivered mail message.  A blank line is appended	to
       each  message.	A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter
       line (that is, a line beginning with the five characters ``From '' following a blank line).

       The mail files are exclusively locked with flock(2) while mail is appended, and a user.lock file also  is  created  while  the  mailbox	is
       locked for compatibility with older MUAs.

       If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3), the biff server is notified of delivered mail.

       The mail.local utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

ENVIRONMENT

       TZ     Used to set the appropriate time zone on the timestamp.

FILES

       /tmp/local.XXXXXX     temporary files
       /var/mail/user	     user's default mailbox directory
       /var/mail/user.lock   lock file for a user's default mailbox

SEE ALSO

       mail(1), xsend(1), flock(2), getservbyname(3), comsat(8), sendmail(8)

WARNING

       mail.local  escapes  only "^From " lines that follow an empty line.  If all lines starting with "From " should be escaped, use the 'E' flag
       for the local mailer in the sendmail.cf file.

HISTORY

       A superset of mail.local (handling mailbox reading as well as mail delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX as the program mail.

							   $Date: 2003/10/20 20:26:51 $ 					     MAIL.LOCAL(8)