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rmail -- Command Receive mail from remote sites rmail [-LlRr] -q num -u uuxflags address ... Command rmail receives and processes mail from remote sites. It reads and interprets the address on the mail. If the mail is addressed to a user on your local system, it hands the mail to the local-mail deliverer lmail for delivery; if the mail is addressed to a remote system, it queues the mail for forwarding to that system. It is very unusual for a user to invoke rmail from the command line. rmail usually is invoked by another program; in particular, the command uuxqt invokes it to process mail uploaded from another machine via UUCP. Options The command uux can pass options to rmail to control its behavior. rmail recognizes the following command-line options: -L Hand all mail that whose address includes a UUCP path to the local mailer lmail for processing, presumably to make use of other transport mechanisms (e.g., Ethernet). This option, and option -l, defers all routing until lmail has re-forwarded the mail to smail for further processing. -l Hand all mail whose address includes a domain name to the local mailer lmail for processing, so they can be processed for non-UUCP domains. -q number Set the queuing threshold to number. When routing mail to a given host, rmail checks the ``cost'' of contacting the host; this cost set in file /usr/lib/mail/paths. If the cost is less the queueing threshold, then rmail sends the mail immediately; otherwise, it queues the mail for later shipment. Under COHERENT, default queueing threshold is 100. -R Reroute UUCP paths, trying successively larger righthand substrings of a path until a component is recognized. -r Route the first component of a UUCP path (host!address) in addition to routing domain addresses (user@domain). -u uuxflags Pass all uuxflags to the command uux for inclusion in the remote-mail command. This overrides any of the default values and other queueing strategies. Files /usr/lib/mail/aliases -- File from which aliases data base is built /usr/lib/mail/paths -- File from which paths data base is built /usr/spool/uucp/.Log/mail/mail -- Log of mail /bin/lmail -- Local mailer /bin/mail -- Mail user agent See Also aliases, commands, lmail, mail [overview], paths, smail Notes rmail is a link to command smail. For information on how rmail parses addresses and constructs headers, see the Lexicon entry for smail. Because rmail is a link to smail, it actually recognizes all of smail's command-line options; however, it ignores all except those listed above. Copyright © 1987, 1988 Ronald S. Karr and Landon Curt Noll. Copyright © 1992 Ronald S. Karr. For details on the distribution rights and restrictions associated with this software, see file COPYING, which is included with the source code to the smail system; or type the command: smail -bc.