Penguin

PILOT-MAIL

PILOT-MAIL

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT SECURITY AUTHORS


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 sendmail(1)?__.

-s command

Command used to invoke __sendmail(1)?. Defaults to

-k

Keep or delete mail on POP server after transferring it to Pilot. Default is to keep mail.

-d

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 sendmail(1)?__.

SENDMAIL

Command used to invoke __sendmail(1)?. Defaults to

POPKEEP

Keep or delete mail on POP server after transferring it to Pilot. Can be either

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


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