RMAIL(1zm) RMAIL(1zm)
NAME
rmail - zmailer program to process incoming uucp mail
SYNOPSIS
rmail [-d] [-h somewhere] recipient...
DESCRIPTION
The rmail (1zm) is usually invoked by a remote UUCP neighbour host's
mailer using a command line like:
uux - -r -asender -gC thishost!rmail (recipient1) (recipient2) ...
The end result is the remote neighbour's uuxqt(8) runs rmail(1zm) on
thishost with this command line:
rmail recipient1 recipient2 ...
In both cases, a UUCP format mail message is on the standard input.
The task of rmail(1zm) is to transform the trace information in the
UUCP format message to the equivalent RFC822 trace information, and to
submit the message to the ZMailer router(8zm) with the appropriate
envelope information.
The expected input format looks like:
From address3 date3 remote from host3
>From address2 date2 remote from host2
>From address1 date1 remote from host1
followed by the rest of the message. This is considered equivalent to
the following (as it might appear in a mailbox):
From host3!host2!host1!address1 date
Received: by host3 ... ; date3
Received: by host2 ... ; date2
Received: by host1 ... ; date1
In order for the mailer to process the incoming message properly,
rmail(1zm) must be run by a userid which the router(8zm) will accept
forged mail from. This is normally the uucp account id.
OPTIONS
-d turns on debugging output.
-h somewhere
will use the argument as the default remote UUCP host name to
use if there is no "remote from host" tag in the first From-
space line in the message. The default value for this is usu-
ally somewhere or uunet (since uunet was a frequent purveyor of
this protocol violation).
FILES
/opt/mail/zmailer.conf (ZCONFIG)
/var/spool/postoffice (POSTOFFICE)
SEE ALSO
router(8zm), zmailer(8zm), zmailer.conf(5zm).
AUTHOR
This program authored and copyright by:
Rayan Zachariassen <no address>
2003-Aug-28 RMAIL(1zm)