SEND(8)SEND(8)

NAME

send – mail routing and delivery

SYNOPSIS

upas/send [ -b ] [ -i ] [ -r ] [ -x ] [ -# ] [ mailaddr ... ]

DESCRIPTION

Send is not normally run directly by the user. Instead, mail protocol agents like smtpd (see smtp(8)) and mail preparers like marshal(1) fork and execute send.

Send reads a message from standard input and disposes of it in one of four ways:

If mailaddr refers to a local mailbox, it appends it to the recipient’s mailbox.  

If mailaddr is remote, it queues the mail for remote delivery.  

If the -r option is given and the mail is undeliverable, the message mail rejected: is printed on standard error, setting exit status.  

if the -r option is not given and the mail is undeliverable, it appends the mail to /mail/box/username/dead.letter and prints a message to standard error.  

The file /mail/lib/rewrite determines exactly how to deliver or queue the mail. The decision is based purely on the recipient address.

The options are:

-b

suppresses the addition of the To: line.  

-i

let the message input be terminated by a line containing only a period, for compatibility with old mailers.  

-x

do not send mail, but instead report the full mail address of the recipient.  

-#

do not send mail, but instead report what command would be used to send the mail.  

-r

input is via a pipe from another program. Expect a From line at the start of the message to provide the name of the sender and timestamp. This implies the -b option.  

Send uses the login name as the reply address.

FILES

/sys/log/mail

mail log file  

/mail/box/*/dead.letter

unmailable text  

/mail/lib/rewrite

rules for handling addresses  

/mail/box/*/names

personal alias files  

/mail/lib/namefiles

lists names of files containing system aliases  

SOURCE

/sys/src/cmd/upas/send

 

SEE ALSO

aliasmail(8), faces(1), filter(1), mail(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1), nedmail(1), qer(8), rewrite(6), smtp(8), upasfs(4)