---
name: "mail.local"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "ktalkd"
version: "4:2.2.2-14.7"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mail.local"
---

# mail.local(1)

Sends email locally.

## NAME

mail.local — Sends email locally.

## SYNOPSIS

**mail.local** \[**-f \<from\>***\]  \[***recipient***\]*

## DESCRIPTION

*This manual page documents briefly the*  **mail.local** *command.*

**mail.local** *is a program to send email locally.*

## OPTIONS

*These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax,*  *with long options starting with two dashes (\`-').  A summary of*  *options is included below. However, the ordering is very strict -*  *--help/-h must come before hostname.*

- **-f \<from\>**

  *Email address of the sender (defaults to the local user).*

- **recipient**

  *Recipient of the email.*

## AUTHOR

*This manual page was written by Daniel Stone \<daniel@sfarc.net\> for*  *the* **Debian GNU/Linux** *system (but may be used by others).  Permission is*  *granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under*  *the terms of the GNU Free Documentation*  *License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free*  *Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover*  *Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.*