RMAIL(8)                             System Manager's Manual                             RMAIL(8)



NAME
       rmail - handle remote mail received via uucp

SYNOPSIS
       rmail 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.

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

HISTORY
       The rmail program appeared in 4.2BSD.

BUGS
       Rmail should not reside in /bin.



                                   $Date: 2004/12/28 05:34:15 $                          RMAIL(8)