1 .TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena"
4 chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail
9 chpobox [ \-s address | \-S address | \-p ] [ \-u username ]
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
17 In the first use of this command, the post office box of the
18 user whose name corresponds to the single argument
22 is not specified) is displayed.
24 In the second use, this command sets the
25 actual address that will receive mail sent to
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
35 command is used instead of the file
37 which would be used with standard UNIX mail.
39 In order to change the address that receives mail sent to
43 option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to
46 you would issue the command
53 To split mail between your local post office box and a remote address,
58 To restore your post office box to its original Athena default,
61 flag. This will set your mailbox to the last POP or IMAP server
71 may be used at a time.
73 Note that the actual change may take up to a day to
74 propogate to the mail hub.
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
82 in double-quotes. For example, the command
85 chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\"
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.
94 Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan.