MDELIVER(1)

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💌 mdeliver(1) — General Commands Manual 💌

okay so bestie, listen up, this is the manual page for mdeliver and it's genuinely one of my faves 💖

✨ NAME ✨

mdeliver — deliver messages or import mbox file 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mdeliver [-c] [-v] [-X flags] dir < message
mdeliver -M [-c] [-v] [-X flags] dir < mbox

like, two whole modes, both slaying ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so mdeliver takes a message that's coming in on standard input and adds it as a brand-new message in the maildir dir. that's it. that's the whole vibe 💅

when you throw -M in the mix, mdeliver treats standard input as an MBOXRD mailbox — it splits that thing on From and delivers each message one by one, decoding each one per the MBOXRD convention. and here's the iconic part: in that case, mdeliver sets the mtime from the value of Date: and sets the maildir flags from the value of Status: or X-Status:. iykyk 🫶

the messages get delivered in a reliable way, and it uses the default umask(2). no cap 🔥

bestie please note: no syntactical checks are performed on the messages. like, zero. none. it trusts you completely 🙈

the options are as follows:

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -M — deliver each message of an mbox 📬
  • -c — deliver messages into cur/, not new/ (which is the default) 🎀
  • -v — print each new message filename after delivery, so you can see the receipts 👀
  • -X flg — override the flags of the new message file to be flg 💅

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

the mdeliver utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. simple as that, periodt ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

MBOXRD Email Format: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000385.shtml

Using maildir format: https://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org> — main character energy fr fr 💜

🧚 LICENSE 🧚

mdeliver is in the public domain. 🎉

To the extent possible under law, the creator of this work has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

and that's the whole page bestie, go deliver some mail 💌✨

— Debian, February 4, 2021. mwah, stan this utility 🍓💅

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