man push (Administration système) - push
NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
retrieves mail from the post office box po-box , and stores the mail in mbox format in filename . The po-box can have any of the following formats:
- Ql hostname:username
- Ql po:hostname:username
- Ql username@hostname
- Ql po:username@hostname
- Ql hostname
- Ql po:username
If no username is specified, assumes that it's the same as on the local machine; hostname defaults to the value of the MAILHOST environment variable.
Supported options:
- Xo
- -4 , --krb4 use Kerberos 4 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 4)
- Xo
- -5 , --krb5 use Kerberos 5 (if compiled with support for Kerberos 5)
- Xo
- -f , --fork fork before starting to delete messages
- Xo
- -l , --leave don't delete fetched mail
- Xo
- --from behave like from.
- Xo
- -c , --count first print how many messages and bytes there are.
- Xo
- --headers Ns = Ns headers a list of comma-separated headers that should get printed.
- Xo
- -p port-spec , --port Ns = Ns port-spec use this port instead of the default or
The default is to first try Kerberos 5 authentication and then, if that fails, Kerberos 4.
ENVIRONMENT
- MAILHOST
- points to the post office, if no other hostname is specified.
EXAMPLES
$ push cornfield:roosta ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box
tries to fetch mail for the user roosta from the post office at and stores the mail in ~/.emacs-mail-crash-box (you are using Gnus, aren't you?) $ push --from -5 havregryn
tries to fetch lines for current user at post office using Kerberos 5.
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
was written while waiting for movemail to finish getting the mail.