deliver
The deliver utility delivers mail directly to the
message store accessible by IMAP or POP mail clients.
If you are administering an integrated messaging environment, you can
use this utility to deliver mail from another MTA, a sendmail MTA
for example, to the Messaging Server message store.
Note – The deliver utility is only for use with files
which are already completely and properly formed email messages.
Requirements: Must be run locally
on the Messaging Server; the stored utility must also be running.
Make sure that the environment variable CONFIGROOT is set
to msg_svr_base/config.
Location on UNIX: msg_svr_base/sbin/
Syntax
deliver [-a authid][-l] [-c] [-d] [-r address] [-f address]
[-m mailbox] [-q] [-g flag] [ userid]...
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You can specify multiple userids.
Options
The options for this command are:
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Option
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Description
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-a authid
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Specifies the authorization ID of the sender. Defaults to anonymous.
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-c
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Automatically creates the mailbox if it doesn’t exist in the message
store.
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-d
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This option is recognized by deliver in order to
maintain compatibility with /bin/mail, but it is ignored
by deliver.
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-g flag
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Sets the system flag or keyword flag on the delivered message.
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-f address
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Inserts a forwarding path header containing address.
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-l
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Delivers messages using the LMTP protocol (RFC 2033).
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-m mailbox
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Delivers mail to mailbox.
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If any user ids are specified, attempts to deliver mail to mailbox for each user id. If the access control on a mailbox
does not grant the “p” right to the value of authid passed in
with the -a option or if the -m option is not specified,
then this option delivers mail to the inbox for the userid, regardless of
the access control on the inbox.
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If no userids are specified, this option attempts to deliver
mail to mailbox. If the access control on a mailbox
does not grant the “p” right to the value of the authid passed
in with the -a option, the delivery fails.
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When using deliver -m mailbox
userid, mailbox can just be the IMAP
folder name, but when using deliver -m mailbox, mailbox must be in the format user/userid/folder
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-q
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Overrides mailbox quotas. Delivers messages even when the receiving
mailbox is over quota.
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-r address
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Inserts a Return-Path: header containing address.
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userid
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Deliver to inbox the user specified by userid.
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If you specify no options, mail is delivered to the inbox.
Examples
To deliver the contents of a file named message to
Fred’s tasks mailbox:
deliver -m tasks fred < message
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In the above example, if the tasks mailbox does not
grant “p” rights to the value of the authid passed in with the
-a option, the contents of message.list are delivered to
the inbox of the user fred.
