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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-25 14:19:50 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2014-03-25 14:19:50 +0000
commit68cb23426b1fa7103bffc8f3209fa9d6d00a4812 (patch)
tree93c3cfc5c44da2c062082a987182c770c97141ae /libexec/mail.local
parentacfca29d9c639ab5bc033a15080e86352a83c8e8 (diff)
make this page slightly less sendmail centric; ok gilles
Diffstat (limited to 'libexec/mail.local')
-rw-r--r--libexec/mail.local/mail.local.827
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8 b/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8
index f77fa6daab8..c53e7f66247 100644
--- a/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8
+++ b/libexec/mail.local/mail.local.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mail.local.8,v 1.29 2010/09/03 11:35:08 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mail.local.8,v 1.30 2014/03/25 14:19:49 jmc Exp $
.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" from: @(#)mail.local.8 6.8 (Berkeley) 4/27/91
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: September 3 2010 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: March 25 2014 $
.Dt MAIL.LOCAL 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -125,7 +125,8 @@ user's mailbox directory
.Xr flock 2 ,
.Xr getservbyname 3 ,
.Xr comsat 8 ,
-.Xr sendmail 8
+.Xr sendmail 8 ,
+.Xr smtpd 8
.Sh HISTORY
A superset of
.Nm
@@ -134,17 +135,12 @@ A superset of
as the program
.Xr mail 1 .
.Sh BUGS
-Since
-.Xr sendmail 8
-bases its idea of whether a message has been delivered or not
-on the return value from
-.Nm mail.local ,
-using quotas in
+Using quotas in
.Pa /var/mail
-can be problematic.
-By default,
+can be problematic if using
.Xr sendmail 8
-will ask
+as an MTA,
+since it asks
.Nm
to deliver a message to multiple recipients if possible.
This causes problems in a quota environment since a message may be
@@ -157,8 +153,13 @@ to attempt redelivery later.
That means that some users will keep getting the same message every time
.Xr sendmail 8
runs its queue.
+This problem does not exist for
+.Xr smtpd 8
+users.
.Pp
-If you are running with disk quotas on
+If you are running
+.Xr sendmail 8
+and have disk quotas on
.Pa /var/mail
it is imperative that you unset the
.Dq m