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1 | .TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena" | |
2 | \" RCSID: $Header$ | |
3 | .SH NAME | |
4 | chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail | |
5 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
6 | .TP 8 | |
7 | chpobox [ username ] | |
8 | .TP 8 | |
9 | chpobox [ \-s address | \-S address | \-p ] [ \-u username ] | |
10 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
11 | Your post office box is what determines where you will receive | |
12 | mail. It can be of several types: | |
13 | .I POP, IMAP, SMTP, SPLIT | |
14 | or | |
15 | .IR NONE . | |
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 | |
26 | .I username@MIT.EDU | |
27 | (where | |
28 | .I username | |
29 | is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line). | |
30 | It should be used if you want to change where you will | |
31 | receive mail. | |
32 | ||
33 | The | |
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 | |
40 | .I username@MIT.EDU, | |
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 | |
50 | chpobox -s name@host | |
51 | .fi | |
52 | ||
53 | To split mail between your local post office box and a remote address, | |
54 | use the | |
55 | .B -S | |
56 | option. | |
57 | ||
58 | To restore your post office box to its original Athena default, | |
59 | use the | |
60 | .B -p | |
61 | flag. This will set your mailbox to the last POP or IMAP server | |
62 | it was using. | |
63 | .PP | |
64 | ||
65 | Only one of | |
66 | .B -p | |
67 | or | |
68 | .B -s | |
69 | or | |
70 | .B -S | |
71 | may be used at a time. | |
72 | ||
73 | Note that the actual change may take up to a day to | |
74 | propogate to the mail hub. | |
75 | ||
76 | .SH NOTE | |
77 | ||
78 | When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned | |
79 | will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some | |
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 | |
85 | chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\" | |
86 | .fi | |
87 | will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ls.mit.edu, as it would | |
88 | otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by | |
89 | backslashes to get them past the shell. | |
90 | ||
91 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
92 | moira(1), | |
93 | ||
94 | Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan. |