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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 |
75c22c2e | 6 | .TP 8 |
7 | chpobox [ username ] | |
8 | .TP 8 | |
9 | chpobox [ \-s address | \-S address | \-p ] [ \-u username ] | |
76ca8a03 | 10 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
8f474dac | 11 | Your post office box is what determines where you will receive |
75c22c2e | 12 | mail. It can be of several types: |
13 | .I POP, IMAP, SMTP, SPLIT | |
14 | or | |
15 | .IR NONE . | |
8f474dac | 16 | |
17 | In the first use of this command, the post office box of the | |
18 | user whose name corresponds to the single argument | |
19 | .I username | |
20 | (or your own name if | |
21 | .I username | |
22 | is not specified) is displayed. | |
23 | ||
24 | In the second use, this command sets the | |
25 | actual address that will receive mail sent to | |
a60a6d07 | 26 | .I username@MIT.EDU |
8f474dac | 27 | (where |
28 | .I username | |
29 | is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line). | |
2882a6f9 | 30 | It should be used if you want to change where you will |
8f474dac | 31 | receive mail. |
32 | ||
227344f4 | 33 | The |
8f474dac | 34 | .I chpobox |
35 | command is used instead of the file | |
36 | .I .forward, | |
37 | which would be used with standard UNIX mail. | |
38 | ||
39 | In order to change the address that receives mail sent to | |
a60a6d07 | 40 | .I username@MIT.EDU, |
8f474dac | 41 | use the |
42 | .B -s | |
43 | option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to | |
44 | the address | |
45 | .I name@host, | |
46 | you would issue the command | |
47 | ||
48 | .nf | |
49 | .nj | |
75c22c2e | 50 | chpobox -s name@host |
8f474dac | 51 | .fi |
52 | ||
75c22c2e | 53 | To split mail between your local post office box and a remote address, |
54 | use the | |
55 | .B -S | |
56 | option. | |
57 | ||
8f474dac | 58 | To restore your post office box to its original Athena default, |
59 | use the | |
227344f4 | 60 | .B -p |
75c22c2e | 61 | flag. This will set your mailbox to the last POP or IMAP server |
8f474dac | 62 | it was using. |
227344f4 | 63 | .PP |
b45bc46f | 64 | |
8f474dac | 65 | Only one of |
66 | .B -p | |
67 | or | |
68 | .B -s | |
75c22c2e | 69 | or |
70 | .B -S | |
8f474dac | 71 | may be used at a time. |
72 | ||
1144967a | 73 | Note that the actual change may take up to a day to |
74 | propogate to the mail hub. | |
8f474dac | 75 | |
8f474dac | 76 | .SH NOTE |
b45bc46f | 77 | |
78 | When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned | |
2882a6f9 | 79 | will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some |
b45bc46f | 80 | reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put |
81 | .B just the hostname | |
82 | in double-quotes. For example, the command | |
83 | .nf | |
84 | .nj | |
a60a6d07 | 85 | chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\" |
b45bc46f | 86 | .fi |
a60a6d07 | 87 | will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ls.mit.edu, as it would |
b45bc46f | 88 | otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by |
89 | backslashes to get them past the shell. | |
8f474dac | 90 | |
91 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
92 | moira(1), | |
93 | ||
94 | Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan. |