rmail(8)

rmail8

Handle remote mail received via uucp

Usage

rmail [-D domain] [-T] user ...

Overview

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.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 13 times.

  1. 2.0.5
  2. 2.1.5–2.1.7.1
  3. 2.2.2–2.2.6
  4. 2.2.7–2.2.8
  5. 2.2.9
  6. 3.0
  7. 3.1–4.1
  8. 4.1.1–4.2
  9. 4.3–4.5
  10. 4.6–9.2
  11. 9.3
  12. 10.0
  13. 10.1–13.1
  14. 13.2–16.0

-D since FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE; -T since FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE.

History

The rmail program appeared in 4.2BSD.

Bugs

Rmail should not reside in /bin.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.