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DELIVER(8)                                                                                        DELIVER(8)



NAME
       deliver - deliver mail to an IMAP mailbox

SYNOPSIS
       deliver [ -C config-file ] [ -d ] [ -r address ]
               [ -f address ] [ -m mailbox ] [ -a auth-id ]
               [ -q ] [ userid ]...
       deliver [ -C config-file ] -l

DESCRIPTION
       Deliver reads a message from the standard input and delivers it to one or more IMAP mailboxes.

       Deliver  reads  its configuration options out of the imapd.conf(5) file unless specified otherwise by
       -C.

OPTIONS
       -C config-file
              Read configuration options from config-file.

       -d     Ignored for compatability with /bin/mail.

       -r address
              Insert a Return-Path: header containing address

       -f address
              Insert a Return-Path: header containing address

       -m mailbox
              Deliver to mailbox.  If any userids are specified, attempts to deliver to  user.userid.mailbox
              for each userid.  If the ACL on any such mailbox does not grant the sender the "p" right or if
              -m is not specified, then delivers to the INBOX for the userid, regardless of the ACL  on  the
              INBOX.

              If  no  userids are specified, attempts to deliver to mailbox.  If the ACL on mailbox does not
              grant the sender the "p" right, the delivery fails.

       -a auth-id
              Specify the authorization id of the sender.  Defaults to "anonymous".

       -q     Deliver message even when receiving mailbox is over quota.

       -l     Accept messages using the LMTP protocol.

NOTES
       Depending on the setting of reject8bit in imapd.conf(5), deliver either rejects/accepts messages with
       8-bit-set characters in the headers.  If we accept messages with 8-bit-set characters in the headers,
       then depending on the setting of munge8bit, these characters are either left un-touched or changed to
       `X'.   This  is  because  such  characters can't be interpreted since the character set is not known,
       although some communities not well-served by US-ASCII assume that those characters  can  be  used  to
       represent characters not present in US-ASCII.

       A method for encoding 8-bit-set characters is provided by RFC 2047.

FILES
       /etc/imapd.conf

SEE ALSO
       lmtpd(8)



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