VMSMAILD(8)

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👑 VMSMAILD(8) — System Manager's Manual 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is a system manager's manual page and it's giving "the mail girlies of DECnet finally get to talk to Unix" energy. It's VMSMAILD(8), section 8, and it is so niche and so iconic. Let's get into it. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

vmsmaild — the mail daemon for DECnet. that's it, that's the whole name. no cap.

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

vmsmaild [options]
Options:
[-vVhfU] [-l logtype]

literally just run it with options, bestie. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so vmsmaild is a daemon whose whole job — her entire main character arc — is forwarding incoming VMSmail (or mail11) messages to Unix users. she's the translator between two worlds and she ate.

✨ she should be started at system boot time (specifically after DECnet has been started) and she must be run as root. no exceptions, queen. 👑

and here's the tea: it's recommended that you run vmsmaild from dnetd(8). she's a team player.

all the options below affect how vmsmaild behaves. and heads up — if you're using dnetd, then these options should be specified in the dnetd.conf(5) file instead. iykyk. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • -l — Set logging options. and ooooh the choices, bestie:
    • -lm — Log to /dev/mono. (only useful if you have my mono monitor driver or mdacon and a second monitor. very "i have a second monitor just for logs" of you 🖥️)
    • -le — Log to stderr. Use this for debugging or testing combined with -d.
    • -ls — Log to syslog(3). this is the default if no options are given. so if you say nothing, you get syslog. she just knows. 💜
  • -v — Verbose. The more of these there are the more verbose vmsmaild will be. 💬 Don't use more than one for normal operation because it will seriously impair performance. like, she will not be okay. one is plenty, fr fr.
  • -h, -? — Displays help for using the command. your lil bestie when you're lost 🥺
  • -V — Show the version of vmsmaild. slay, what's her number 🌈
  • -f — Accepts mail send with the MAIL/FOREIGN command. > ⚠️ heads up: setting this option complicates the decoding of all mail message quite substantially because the remote end thinks it is talking to a VMS machine that understands RMS file formats. Only use this option if you really need it. like, really really. 😭
  • -U — Don't check that the reply user exists when starting up. If you only want to use linux as a recipient of mail from VMS systems and don't want to create a vmsmail user then set this option. See the Documentation/mail.README file for more information on setting up a mail gateway. gateway girlies, this one's for you 🧚

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

the whole friend group 💖

and that's the page, bestie!! this lil queen comes to you courtesy of the DECnet utilities, dated December 26, 2000 — a vintage icon serving looks and mail forwarding since Y2K. periodt. 💅✨

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