02-04-2009
The mqueue is usually the outbound queue. Mails sent via sendmail get queued here until sendmail can deliver them to the next mail hop. If there are lots of mails getting queued here, it's because there's a sendmail configuration or network problem. Mails delivered locally should go to /var/spool/mail.
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
mail.local
MAIL.LOCAL(8) System Manager's Manual MAIL.LOCAL(8)
NAME
mail.local - store mail in a mailbox
SYNOPSIS
mail.local [-7] [-B] [-b] [-d] [-D mbdb] [-l] [-s] [-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 Turn off the attempts to notify the ``biff'' service.
-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.
-s Turn off the fsync(2) call that forces the mailbox to be committed to disk before returning a "success" status.
-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), 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: 2013-11-22 20:51:51 $ MAIL.LOCAL(8)