RMAIL
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: $Date: 2001/04/03 01:53:16 $
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NAME
rmail
- handle remote mail received via uucp
SYNOPSIS
rmail
[-D
domain]
[-T]
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.
Flags
- -D
-
Use the specified
domain
instead of the default domain of ``UUCP''.
- -T
-
Turn on debugging.
SEE ALSO
uucp(1),
mail.local(8),
sendmail(8)
HISTORY
The
rmail
program appeared in
4.2BSD.
BUGS
Rmail
should not reside in
/bin.