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   2 .TH RMAIL 1 RAND
   3 .SH NAME
   4 rmail \- send mail from a remote site
   5 .SH SYNOPSIS
   6 .B mail
   7 user
   8 .SH DESCRIPTION
   9 .I Rmail
  10 is intended as an interface between mail sent from foreign
  11 sites via
  12 .I uucp(1)
  13 and the Rand message handling system,
  14 .I mh(1).
  15 It reads a message from the standard input and, after creating
  16 mh-format lines for the sender and recipient user, writes
  17 it into a temporary file.  It then invokes
  18 .I deliver(8)
  19 to complete the mail delivery.
  20 .PP
  21 .I Rmail
  22 is able to understand a series of lines of the form:
  23 .br
  24         From \fIuser\fB ... remote from \fIsite\fR
  25 .br
  26 and turn them into the correct "From: \fIsite\fR!\fIuser\fR" form,
  27 thus allowing effective use of the
  28 .I reply(1)
  29 command.
  30 .PP
  31 If the destination
  32 .I user
  33 is in fact a foreign uucp site, no formatting or reprocessing is
  34 done;
  35 .I deliver
  36 will simply forward the message to the foreign site with the
  37 appropriate uucp-style header on it.
  38 .SH FILES
  39 /etc/mh/deliver
  40 .br
  41 /tmp/mail*.tmp
  42 .br
  43 .SH SEE ALSO
  44 bellmail(1),  deliver(8), mail(1), uucp(1)