term% cat index.txt MAIL(1) General Commands Manual MAIL(1)
NAME
mail, go.fishing - mail and mailboxes
SYNOPSIS
mail [ arg ... ]
go.fishing
DESCRIPTION
Mail is a shell script that invokes nedmail(1), the mail reader, when
no recipients appear on the command line and marshal(1), the mail pre‐
parer, otherwise. All command line options are passed through. See
the man pages for those two commands for more details.
Incoming mail for a user username is put in the file /mail/box/user‐
name/mbox unless either the file /mail/box/username/forward or
/mail/box/username/pipeto exists. The mailbox must have append-only
and exclusive-access mode (see chmod(1)). A user must create his or
her own mailbox using the -c option of nedmail(1). Mailboxes are cre‐
ated writable (append-only) but not readable by others.
If the file /mail/box/username/forward exists and is readable by every‐
one, incoming mail will be forwarded to the addresses contained in the
first line of the file. The file may contain multiple addresses. For‐
warding loops are caught and resolved by local delivery.
If the file /mail/box/username/pipeto exists and is readable and exe‐
cutable by everyone, it will be run for each incoming message for the
user. The message will be piped to it rather than appended to his/her
mail box. The file is run as user none. Its two arguments are the
with arguments of the destination address (e.g., local!gremlin) and the
user's mail box path (e.g., /mail/box/gremlin/mbox)
Auto-answer
To use mail as an answering machine while you are away, run go.fishing,
which will create /mail/box/$user/gone.fishing as a flag for pipeto
processing, and truncate /mail/box/$user/gone.addrs. Any existing
pipeto file that uses /mail/lib/pipeto.lib will invoke the gone.fishing
machinery when it calls spool or spool-tagged-spam.
If /mail/box/$user/gone.msg exists, it will be sent (just once) to ev‐
eryone who sends you mail that lists your address in a or header; if
not, /mail/lib/gone.msg will be sent. Upon your return, remove
/mail/box/$user/gone.fishing to stop automatic responses.
FILES
/sys/log/mail
mail log file
/mail/box/*
mail directories
/mail/box/*/mbox
mailbox files
/mail/box/*/forward
forwarding address(es)
/mail/box/*/pipeto
mail filter
/mail/box/*/L.reading
mutual exclusion lock for multiple mbox readers
/mail/box/*/L.mbox
mutual exclusion lock for altering mbox
/lib/face/48x48x?
directories of icons for seemail
/mail/lib/pipeto.lib
helper functions for pipeto files
/mail/lib/gone.msg
default vacation message
/mail/lib/gone.fishing
auto-responder as pipeto script
/mail/box/$user/gone.fishing
flag to active gone processing
/mail/box/$user/gone.addrs
list of senders answered by gone.fishing
SOURCE
/rc/bin/mail
/rc/bin/go.fishing
SEE ALSO
aliasmail(8), faces(1), filter(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1),
qer(8), rewrite(6), send(8), smtp(8), upasfs(4)
MAIL(1)