mention MAIL environment variable

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index a9d50159403..2bae2ad8d46 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.11 1998/06/25 07:29:05 deraadt Exp $
+.\"	$OpenBSD: mail.1,v 1.12 1998/07/16 06:05:18 millert Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1990, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -1040,10 +1040,17 @@ utilizes the
 and
 .Ev USER
 environment variables.
+.Pp
+If the
+.Ev MAIL
+environment variable is set, its value is used as the path to the
+user's mail spool.
 .Sh FILES
 .Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/mail.*help -compact
 .It Pa /var/mail/*
-Post office.
+Post office (unless overridden by the
+.Ev MAIL
+environment variable).
 .It ~/mbox
 User's old mail.
 .It ~/.mailrc
@@ -1064,6 +1071,7 @@ System initialization file.
 .Xr vacation 1 ,
 .Xr aliases 5 ,
 .Xr mailaddr 7 ,
+.Xr mail.local 8 ,
 .Xr sendmail 8
 and
 .Rs