MAILPOST (1)

SYNOPSIS

mailpost [ -r addr ] [ -f addr ] [ -a addr ] [ -d distribution ] [ -m mailing-list ] [ -b database ] newsgroups

DESCRIPTION

The mailpost program reads a properly formatted email message from stdin and feeds it to inews for posting to a news server. Before feeding the article to inews it checks that the article has not been seen before, and it changes some headers (cleans some address headers up and puts ``X-'' in front of unknown headers).

If the article has been seen before ( mailpost records the message-id of all articles is handles), the the article will be silently dropped. Other errors will cause the article to be mailed to the newsmaster.

Normally mailpost is run by sendmail via an alias entry:

R$ <PREFIX specified with --prefix at configure>/bin
local-mail-wreck-bikes: "|\*(R$/mailpost
         -d local local.mail.rec.bicycles.racing"

OPTIONS

-r

If the ``-r'' flag is used the program will use the given address as the Path header, if no other value can be determined.

-f

The ``-f'' flag is a synonym for the ``-r'' flag.

-a

If the ``-a'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as an Approved header.

-d

If the ``-d'' flag is used the value given is added to the article as a Distribution header.

\m

If the ``-m'' flag is used the value given is added to the articles in a Mailing-List header, if a Mailing-List header doesn't already exist.

-b

IF the ``-b'' flag is used, then it defines the location of the database used to store the message ids of articles sent on. This is to prevent articles looping around if a news to mail gateway sends them back here. This option may be required if the mailpost process doesn't have write access to the news tmp directory (the value of athtmp in inn.conf(5).

HISTORY

Written by Paul Vixie long ago and then hacked up by James Brister for INN integration. R$ This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4. $Id: mailpost.8,v 1.1.2.1 1998/12/09 15:40:31 kondou Exp $

FILES

<pathdb in inn.conf>/mailpost-msgid.db database file

BUGS

Is lacking in configurability.

SEE ALSO

- active (5) - inn conf(5) nnrpd(8) wildmat(3)

MAILSTATS(1) UNIX Reference Manual MAILSTATS(1)

N NA AM ME E m ma ai il ls st ta at ts s - display mail statistics

S SY YN NO OP PS SI IS S m ma ai il ls st ta at ts s [- -o o] [- -C C _ c_ f_ f_ i_ l_ e] [- -f f _ s_ t_ f_ i_ l_ e]

D DE ES SC CR RI IP PT TI IO ON N The m ma ai il ls st ta at ts s utility displays the current mail statistics

First the time at which statistics started being kept is displayed in the format specified by - ctime (3) - Then the statistics for each mailer are displayed on a single line each with the following whitespace sepa- rated fields:

M M The mailer number m ms sg gs sf fr r Number of messages from the mailer b by yt te es s_ _f fr ro om m Kbytes from the mailer m ms sg gs st to o Number of messages to the mailer b by yt te es s_ _t to o Kbytes to the mailer m ms sg gs sr re ej j Number of messages rejected m ms sg gs sd di is s Number of messages discarded M Ma ai il le er r The name of the mailer

After this display a line totaling the values for all of the mailers is displayed separated from the previous information by a line containing only equals(``='') characters

The options are as follows:

- -C C Read the specified file instead of the default s se en nd dm ma ai il l ``cf'' file

- -f f Read the specified statistics file instead of the statistics file specified in the s se en nd dm ma ai il l ``cf'' file

- -o o Don't display the name of the mailer in the output

The m ma ai il ls st ta at ts s utility exits 0 on success and >0 if an error occurs

F FI IL LE ES S /etc/sendmail cf The default s se en nd dm ma ai il l ``cf'' file /var/log/sendmail st The default s se en nd dm ma ai il l statistics file

S SE EE E A AL LS SO O mailq(1) sendmail(8)

3rd Berkeley Distribution April 25 1996 1

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