1 .TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena"
4 chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail
21 Your post office box is what determines where you will receive
22 mail. It can be of two types:
24 which is what you have by default, or
26 which allows you to specify an alternate address for your mail.
28 In the first use of this command, the post office box of the
29 user whose name corresponds to the single argument
33 is not specified) is displayed.
35 In the second use, this command sets the
36 actual address that will receive mail sent to
37 .I username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
40 is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line).
41 It should be used if you want to change where you will
46 command is used instead of the file
48 which would be used with standard UNIX mail.
50 In order to change the address that receives mail sent to
51 .I username@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
54 option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to
57 you would issue the command
64 To restore your post office box to its original Athena default,
67 flag. This will set your mailbox to the last post office server
75 may be used at a time.
77 Note that the actual change will not take place on the mail hub
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
89 When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned
90 will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some
91 reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put
93 in double-quotes. For example, the command
96 chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"lcs.mit.edu\\"
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.
105 Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan.