| 1 | .TH CHPOBOX 1 "5 Feb 1988" "Project Athena" |
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| 2 | \" RCSID: $HeadURL: svn+ssh://svn.mit.edu/moira/trunk/moira/man/chpobox.1 $ $Id: chpobox.1 3956 2010-01-05 20:56:56Z zacheiss $" |
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| 3 | .SH NAME |
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| 4 | chpobox \- change address at which user receives mail |
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| 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
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| 6 | .TP 8 |
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| 7 | chpobox [ username ] |
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| 8 | .TP 8 |
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| 9 | chpobox [ \-s address | \-S address | \-p ] [ \-u username ] |
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| 10 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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| 11 | Your post office box is what determines where you will receive |
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| 12 | mail. It can be of several types: |
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| 13 | .I POP, IMAP, SMTP, SPLIT |
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| 14 | or |
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| 15 | .IR NONE . |
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| 16 | |
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| 17 | In the first use of this command, the post office box of the |
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| 18 | user whose name corresponds to the single argument |
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| 19 | .I username |
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| 20 | (or your own name if |
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| 21 | .I username |
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| 22 | is not specified) is displayed. |
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| 23 | |
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| 24 | In the second use, this command sets the |
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| 25 | actual address that will receive mail sent to |
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| 26 | .I username@MIT.EDU |
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| 27 | (where |
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| 28 | .I username |
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| 29 | is your own name if you have not specified it on the command line). |
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| 30 | It should be used if you want to change where you will |
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| 31 | receive mail. |
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| 32 | |
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| 33 | The |
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| 34 | .I chpobox |
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| 35 | command is used instead of the file |
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| 36 | .I .forward, |
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| 37 | which would be used with standard UNIX mail. |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | In order to change the address that receives mail sent to |
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| 40 | .I username@MIT.EDU, |
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| 41 | use the |
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| 42 | .B -s |
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| 43 | option. Specifically, to reroute your mail to |
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| 44 | the address |
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| 45 | .I name@host, |
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| 46 | you would issue the command |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | .nf |
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| 49 | .nj |
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| 50 | chpobox -s name@host |
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| 51 | .fi |
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| 52 | |
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| 53 | To split mail between your local post office box and a remote address, |
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| 54 | use the |
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| 55 | .B -S |
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| 56 | option. |
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| 57 | |
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| 58 | To restore your post office box to its original Athena default, |
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| 59 | use the |
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| 60 | .B -p |
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| 61 | flag. This will set your mailbox to the last POP or IMAP server |
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| 62 | it was using. |
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| 63 | .PP |
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| 64 | |
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| 65 | Only one of |
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| 66 | .B -p |
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| 67 | or |
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| 68 | .B -s |
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| 69 | or |
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| 70 | .B -S |
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| 71 | may be used at a time. |
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| 72 | |
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| 73 | Note that the actual change may take up to a day to |
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| 74 | propogate to the mail hub. |
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| 75 | |
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| 76 | .SH NOTE |
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| 77 | |
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| 78 | When a mailbox is stored in the central database, any host mentioned |
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| 79 | will have its name canonicalized to a standard form. If for some |
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| 80 | reason you don't want to have the hostname canonicalized, put |
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| 81 | .B just the hostname |
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| 82 | in double-quotes. For example, the command |
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| 83 | .nf |
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| 84 | .nj |
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| 85 | chpobox -s jrhacker@\\"cd.mit.edu\\" |
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| 86 | .fi |
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| 87 | will not be canonicalized to jrhacker@ls.mit.edu, as it would |
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| 88 | otherwise. Also note that the double-quotes were preceded by |
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| 89 | backslashes to get them past the shell. |
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| 90 | |
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| 91 | .SH SEE ALSO |
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| 92 | moira(1), |
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| 93 | |
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| 94 | Moira Section of the Project Athena Technical Plan. |
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