lmail(1M)

lmail -- handle local mail delivery from sendmail

Synopsis

lmail user ...

Description

lmail interprets incoming mail received from sendmail(1M) and delivers it to the specified user on the local machine. It locks the user's mailbox using the mailx(1) locking mechanism.

Before delivering mail, lmail reads the first line in the user's mailbox. If the first line begins with the string ``Forward to '', lmail forwards the mail to the address following the ``Forward to '' string instead of putting the mail in the user's mailbox. The address must be in a format consistent with those described in mailaddr(1M).

Files

/usr/spool/mail/username: user mailboxes

References

mailx(1), mailaddr(1M), sendmail(1M)