pdeliver(1)pdeliver(1)NAMEpdeliver - Deliver mail into a maildir mailbox
SYNOPSISpdeliver [--help] [--version] [-q QUOTA, --quota QUOTA] [-Q NUM,
--maxnum NUM] [-m DIR, --mailboxdir DIR] [-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT]
[-l FILE, --logfile FILE] [-i ID, --id ID] mailbox
DESCRIPTION
This command awaits a mail on STDIN formatted according to the format
specified with the -f option. It will write the mail to the mailbox
specified on the command line in maildir format.
OPTIONS--help Get help on parameters.
--version
Print version information.
-q QUOTA, --quota QUOTA
This is the quota for the total size of the mailbox in MBytes
(1024*1024 bytes) or 0, if the total size of the mailbox should
not be checked. Default is 0.
-Q NUM, --maxnum NUM
This is the quota for the number of mails in the mailbox or 0,
if the check should not be performed. Default is 0.
-m DIR, --mailboxdir DIR
This is the directory where all mailbox directories are. Default
is /pop.
-f FORMAT, --format FORMAT
Format of the mail an STDIN. There are three mail formats under‐
stood by pdeliver:
LF Each line in the mail ends in a line feed (LF) character. This
is the common format for UNIX text files.
CRLF Each line in the mail ends in a carriage return (CR), line feed
(LF) combination.
NET Each line in the mail ends in a carriage return (CR, line feed
(LF) combination. Lines beginning with a dot (.), have this dot
doubled. A line consisting of a single dot and a carriage return
(CR), line feed (LF) combination denotes the end of the mail.
pdeliver will stop reading at this point.
Irrespective of the format an EOF will always end the mail.
-l FILE, --logfile FILE
Logfile used for all messages. Default is /var/log/popular/pde‐
liver. if you don't want any logging, you have to use '-l
/dev/null'.
-i ID, --id ID
This ID is logged with every line in the log file to find corre‐
sponding entries. If you don't specify an ID "-" will be logged.
You probabely want to put the internal ID of the MTA here to
easily find corresponding entries in the MTA log file.
QUOTA
The quota will be checked before delivering the mail. The size of the
mail currently being delivered is not counted towards the mailbox size.
If the mailbox size is smaller then the quota and the number of mails
smaller then the maximal allowed number of mails, the mail is deliv‐
ered, otherwise pdeliver exits with return code 1.
Because there is no locking done, two processes delivering into the
same mailbox at the same time might lead to overfull mailboxes.
RETURN CODES
0 Mail was successfully delivered.
1 Quota for this mailbox exceeded. Mail is not delivered.
2 Error while delivering. Permission problems or something like
that.
3 Command line error.
SEE ALSOpcheck(1), pcheckd(8), pclean(8), pcontrol(1), pproxy(8), pserv(8),
pstatus(1), ptestpdm(1), The POPular Manual
AUTHOR
Jochen Topf jochen@remote.org
http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/popular/
<URL:http://www.remote.org/jochen/mail/popular/>
COPYRIGHT
The POPular suite is copyright (C) 1999-2002 by Jochen Topf
jochen@remote.org.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA
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