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 will not take place on the mail hub
74 until the following day.
76 Regular users may change and retrieve information about only
77 their own post office boxes. Moira database administrators can
78 change or retrieve information about any user's post office box,
79 specifying the user with the
85 When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned
86 will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some
87 reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put
89 in double-quotes. For example, the command
92 chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\"
94 will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ls.mit.edu, as it would
95 otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by
96 backslashes to get them past the shell.
101 Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan.