| MAIL.LOCAL(8) | System Manager's Manual | MAIL.LOCAL(8) | 
mail.local —
| mail.local | [ -l] [-ffrom] user ... | 
mail.local reads the standard input up to an end-of-file
  and appends it to each user's
  mail file. The user must be a
  valid user name.
The options are as follows:
Individual mail messages in the mailbox are delimited by an empty line followed by a line beginning with the string ``From ''. A line containing the string ``From '', the sender's name and a time stamp is prepended to each delivered mail message. A blank line is appended to each message. A greater-than character (``>'') is prepended to any line in the message which could be mistaken for a ``From '' delimiter line.
If the [-l] flag is specified mailbox
    locking is done with username.lock files. Otherwise,
    the mailbox is exclusively locked with
    flock(2) while mail is
    appended.
If the ``biff'' service is returned by getservbyname(3), the biff server is notified of delivered mail.
TZmail.local utility exits 0 on success,
  and >0 if an error occurs.
mail.local (handling mailbox reading as
  well as mail delivery) appeared in Version 7 AT&T
  UNIX as the program
  mail(1).
| December 11, 1993 | NetBSD 10.0 |