Rmail

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# Chapter 19. Rmail

The rmail is a program to process incoming UUCP mail. rmail 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 that the remote neighbour's uuxqt(8) runs rmail 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 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(1) router 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 must be run by a ``userid'' which the router(1) will accept forged mail from. his is normally the UUCP account id.

Usage:

      rmail [-d] [-h somewhere] recipient...

Parameters:

  `-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 usually somewhere or uunet (since uunet was a frequent purveyor of this protocol violation).

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