rmail.sendmail (8) Linux Manual Page

rmail – handle remote mail received via uucp

Synopsis

rmail [-D domain] [-T] user …

Description

Rmail interprets incoming mail received via uucp(1), collapsing “From” lines in the form generated by mail.local(8) into a single line of the form “return-path!sender”, and passing the processed mail on to sendmail(8).

Rmail is explicitly designed for use with uucp and sendmail.

Flags

-D

Use the specified domain instead of the default domain of “UUCP”.

-T

Turn on debugging.

See Also

uucp(1), mail.local(8), sendmail(8)

History

The rmail program appeared in 4.2BSD.

Bugs

Rmail should not reside in /bin.