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76ca8a03 | 1 | .TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena" |
2 | \" RCSID: $Header$ | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
8f474dac | 4 | chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail |
76ca8a03 | 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
8f474dac | 6 | .B chpobox |
7 | [ | |
8 | .B username | |
9 | ] | |
10 | ||
11 | or | |
12 | ||
76ca8a03 | 13 | .B chpobox |
8f474dac | 14 | [ \-s |
15 | .B address | |
16 | ] [ \-p ] [ -u | |
17 | .B username | |
18 | ] | |
19 | ||
76ca8a03 | 20 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
8f474dac | 21 | Your post office box is what determines where you will receive |
22 | mail. It can be of two types: | |
23 | .I POP, | |
24 | which is what you have by default, or | |
25 | .I SMTP | |
26 | which allows you to specify an alternate address for your mail. | |
27 | ||
28 | In the first use of this command, the post office box of the | |
29 | user whose name corresponds to the single argument | |
30 | .I username | |
31 | (or your own name if | |
32 | .I username | |
33 | is not specified) is displayed. | |
34 | ||
35 | In the second use, this command sets the | |
36 | actual address that will receive mail sent to | |
37 | .I username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU | |
38 | (where | |
39 | .I username | |
40 | is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line). | |
2882a6f9 | 41 | It should be used if you want to change where you will |
8f474dac | 42 | receive mail. |
43 | ||
227344f4 | 44 | The |
8f474dac | 45 | .I chpobox |
46 | command is used instead of the file | |
47 | .I .forward, | |
48 | which would be used with standard UNIX mail. | |
49 | ||
50 | In order to change the address that receives mail sent to | |
51 | .I username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, | |
52 | use the | |
53 | .B -s | |
54 | option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to | |
55 | the address | |
56 | .I name@host, | |
57 | you would issue the command | |
58 | ||
59 | .nf | |
60 | .nj | |
61 | chpobox -s name@host. | |
62 | .fi | |
63 | ||
64 | To restore your post office box to its original Athena default, | |
65 | use the | |
227344f4 | 66 | .B -p |
8f474dac | 67 | flag. This will set your mailbox to the last post office server |
68 | it was using. | |
227344f4 | 69 | .PP |
b45bc46f | 70 | |
8f474dac | 71 | Only one of |
72 | .B -p | |
73 | or | |
74 | .B -s | |
75 | may be used at a time. | |
76 | ||
77 | Note that the actual change will not take place on the mail hub | |
78 | for several hours. | |
79 | ||
80 | Regular users may change and retrieve information about only | |
81 | their own post office boxes. Moira database administrators can | |
82 | change or retrieve information about any user's post office box, | |
83 | specifying the user with the | |
84 | .B -u | |
85 | option. | |
86 | ||
87 | .SH NOTE | |
b45bc46f | 88 | |
89 | When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned | |
2882a6f9 | 90 | will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some |
b45bc46f | 91 | reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put |
92 | .B just the hostname | |
93 | in double-quotes. For example, the command | |
94 | .nf | |
95 | .nj | |
96 | chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"lcs.mit.edu\\" | |
97 | .fi | |
98 | will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ptt.lcs.mit.edu, as it would | |
99 | otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by | |
100 | backslashes to get them past the shell. | |
8f474dac | 101 | |
102 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
103 | moira(1), | |
104 | ||
105 | Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan. |