Mail Reception and Storage Formats

The Simplified Chinese Solaris Mail Tool stores incoming mail in the /var/mail directory in whatever format the mail arrives in.

Then, as Mail Tool reads the messages from the spool file and sends them to the screen display, it converts the text from the original ISO 2022 to EUC format, for display on the screen.

When you then direct Mail Tool to save a message, its initial default setting is to save the message in EUC format, regardless of the format originally received. This initial default setting is the same as having the following command line in the user's .mailrc file:

set folderconv 

To have mail stored in its originally received format (ISO2022-7 or other formats) and not converted, use a command line, such as the following, in the user's .mailrc file:

set nofolderconv 

The following section explains how to make such command lines take effect.