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Man Page: rmail

Operating Environment: linux

Section: 8

RMAIL(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  RMAIL(8)

NAME
rmail - handle remote mail received via uucp
SYNOPSIS
rmail user ...
DESCRIPTION
Rmail interprets incoming mail received via uucp(1), collapsing ``From'' lines in the form generated by mail.local(8) into a single line of the form ``return-path!sender'', and passing the processed mail on to sendmail(8). Rmail is explicitly designed for use with uucp and sendmail.
SEE ALSO
uucp(1), mail.local(8), sendmail(8)
HISTORY
The rmail program appeared in 4.2BSD.
BUGS
Rmail should not reside in /bin. $Date: 2004/12/28 05:34:15 $ RMAIL(8)
Related Man Pages
sendmailconfig(8) - debian
sensible-mda(8) - debian
uuencode(1) - osf1
mailstats(8) - osf1
praliases(1) - sunos
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