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.\" Copyright (c) 1998-2000 Proofpoint, Inc. and its suppliers.
.\"	 All rights reserved.
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1990
.\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
.\"
.\" By using this file, you agree to the terms and conditions set
.\" forth in the LICENSE file which can be found at the top level of
.\" the sendmail distribution.
.\"
.\"
.\"	$Id: rmail.8,v 8.5 2013-11-22 20:51:53 ca Exp $
.\"
.TH RMAIL 8 "$Date: 2013-11-22 20:51:53 $"
.SH NAME
rmail
\- handle remote mail received via uucp
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rmail
.RB [ \-D
.IR domain ]
.RB [ \-T ]
.I
user ...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B Rmail
interprets incoming mail received via
uucp(1),
collapsing ``From'' lines in the form generated
by
mail.local(8)
into a single line of the form ``return-path!sender'',
and passing the processed mail on to
sendmail(8).
.PP
.B Rmail
is explicitly designed for use with
uucp
and
sendmail.
.SS Flags
.TP
.B \-D
Use the specified
.I domain
instead of the default domain of ``UUCP''.
.TP
.B \-T
Turn on debugging.
.SH SEE ALSO
uucp(1),
mail.local(8),
sendmail(8)
.SH HISTORY
The
.B rmail
program appeared in
4.2BSD.
.SH BUGS
.B Rmail
should not reside in
/bin.