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 <[email protected]>. This manual page was written by Mark Brown <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).