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Manpage of PILOT-MAIL

PILOT-MAIL

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 19, 2000
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NAME

pilot-mail - transfer mail to and from a Palm Pilot  

SYNOPSIS

pilot-mail [options]  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the pilot-mail command.

pilot-mail is a program that synchronises mail between the Mail application on a Palm Pilot and a POP3 mailbox or MH mail folder and sends any outbound mail from the Palm. Not all Palms will have the mail application available.  

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below. Each option may be set either on the command line or using an environment variable. If a command line option is present it overrides the environment variable.
-p port
Serial port to use. Defaults to none.
-h host
Host to download POP3 mail from. Defaults to none.
-u username
User name to use when fetching POP3 mail. No default.
-P password
Password to use when fetching POP3 mail. No default.
-f address
Value of "From:" header to use in outgoing messages. Default is provided by sendmail(1).
-s command
Command used to invoke sendmail(1). Defaults to "/usr/lib/sendmail -t -i". If a null value is specified then mail will not be sent.
-k <keep|delete>
Keep or delete mail on POP server after transferring it to Pilot. Default is to keep mail.
-d <keep|delete|file>
Disposition of mail sent from Pilot. Default is to keep the mail.
-m mhdir
MH spool directory to download to Pilot. Default is none.
 

ENVIRONMENT

Defaults for all command line options can be set using these environment variables.
PILOTPORT
Serial port to use. Defaults to none.
POPHOST
POP3 host to download mail from. Defaults to none.
POPUSER
User name to use when fetching mail with POP3. No default.
POPPASS
Password to use when fetching POP3 mail. No default.
PILOTFROM
Value of "From:" header to use in outgoing messages. Default is provided by sendmail(1).
SENDMAIL
Command used to invoke sendmail(1). Defaults to "/usr/lib/sendmail -t -i". If a null value is specified then mail will not be sent.
POPKEEP
Keep or delete mail on POP server after transferring it to Pilot. Can be either "keep" or "delete", defaulting to "keep".
TOPILOT_MHDIR
MH spool directory to download to Pilot. Default is none.
 

SECURITY

If the POP3 password is specified on the command line other users on the system will be able to view it while pilot-mail using (for example) ps(1).  

AUTHORS

pilot-mail was written by Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>. This manual page was written by Mark Brown <broonie@tardis.ed.ac.uk> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).


 

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
SECURITY
AUTHORS

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