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DELIVER(8)
NAME
  deliver - deliver mail to an IMAP mailbox

SYNOPSIS
  deliver [ -d ] [ -r address ] [ -f address ] [ -m mailbox ] [ -a auth-id ]
  [ -e ] [ -q ] [ -F flag ]...
  [ userid ]...
  deliver -l [ -e ] [ -q ]
  deliver -E days

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.

OPTIONS
  -d   Ignored for compatability with /bin/mail.

  -r address
       Insert a Return-Path: header containing

  -f address
       Insert a Return-Path: header containing

  -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".

  -e   Enable duplicate delivery suppression.  Will suppress delivery of the
       message to a mailbox if a message with the same message-id (or
       resent-message-id) is recorded as having already been delivered to the
       mailbox.	 Records the mailbox and message-id/resent-message-id of all
       successful deliveries.

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

  -F flag
       Set the system flag or keyword flag on the delivered message.

  -l   Accept messages using the LMTP protocol.

  -E days
       Prune the duplicate delivery database of entries older than days.

NOTES
  Depending on the setting of reject8bit in imapd.conf(5), deliver either
  rejects messages with 8-bit-set characters in the headers or changes these
  characters 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

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