MAIL.MAILDIR(8)

💌 MAIL.MAILDIR — the maildir glow-up, bestie ✨

okay so real quick, this is mail.maildir from section 8 of the System Manager's Manual. it's giving "quiet little workhorse that nobody talks about but everyone depends on." we love her for that. 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

mail.maildir — bestie, she stores mail in a maildir. that's it. that's the whole job. and she does it flawlessly. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mail.maildir [-j] [pathname]

literally two things. an optional flag and an optional path. we keep it simple here, no cap. 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea. mail.maildir reads from standard input and just keeps reading and reading until it hits an end-of-file — like, she will not stop until you're done, she's committed like that 😭 — and then she adds all of it to a mail directory.

which mail directory, you ask? okay so it's either:

• the mail directory sitting at pathname if you gave her one, or
• the mail directory called Maildir inside the user's home directory 🏠

like, if you don't tell her where to go, she just goes home. relatable. main character energy fr fr. ✨

The options are as follows:

• -j — she scans the message for an X-Spam header, and if the result comes back positive, that bad boy gets moved to the Junk folder. spam? not on her watch. 🚫🍓

🦋 EXIT STATUS 🦋

• exits 0 on success — slay, we ate, everything worked 💅
• exits >0 if an error occurs — something went wrong and she's telling you about it 💀

ngl, if you see a nonzero exit, check your paths. that's usually the vibe check that failed. 🙈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• mail(1)
• smtpd(8)

iykyk, go read those next. they're iconic in their own right. 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this came out of Debian, dated February 13, 2021 — so she's been out here being reliable since forever. go forth and file your mail correctly. mwah. 💜🌸✨