---
name: "mailping-store"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "mailping"
version: "0.0.4-3"
release: "Debian 9 (Stretch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/mailping-store"
---

# mailping-store(1)

store email from stdin to a mailping incoming maildir

      2004-04-15

      mailping

      0\.0.4

## NAME

mailping-store - store email from stdin to a mailping incoming maildir

## SYNOPSIS

**mailping-store**

## DESCRIPTION

 **mailping-store** reads an email from standard input and writes it into a maildir chosen according to following logic:

 1\. If **EXTENSION** is not set, select *Maildir*.

 2\. If **EXTENSION** is set, ensure its value is safe to use, and select **EXTENSION***/incoming***.**

 **mailping-store** is usually run from a *.forward* file, and thus the filenames above are relative to the home directory of the account in question.

### Normal use

Normally, **mailping-store** is used to ease the setup of new circuits to probe from **mailping-cron**. This is done with a system account mailping using \<mailping@**yourhost.example.com**\> as the *from* address, and \<mailping+**circuitname**@**yourhost.example.com**\> (or some remote address aliased to that) as the *to* address. In fact, these are the default values for *from* and *to*, so you can just skip creating those configuration files.

This allows adding new test circuits without any changes to the email configuration.

## FILES

*/var/lib/mailping/state/***circuit***/incoming*

**Maildir to store the email to.**

*/var/lib/mailping/state/Maildir/*

**Maildir to store the email to, if no extension was given.**

## ENVIRONMENT

**MAILPING\_STATEDIR**

**Override the location of the state directory. Circuit states are stored in the** *state* **subdirectory of this directory, in subdirectories named after the circuit name. Default:** */var/lib/mailping*

**EXTENSION**

**Name of the current circuit to store the mail for.**

## SEE ALSO

 **[mailping-cron(1)](/mailping-cron/1.md), [mailping-success(1)](/mailping-success/1.md), [mailping-latency(1)](/mailping-latency/1.md)**

## AUTHOR

**Tommi Virtanen** \<tv@havoc.fi\>\
 Havoc Consulting

Author.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Havoc Consulting\