The MAIL.DELIVERY file controls DELIVER and tells it how to
handle each incoming message. A MAIL.DELIVERY file consists of
a series of directives with one directive on each line of the
file. Each directive specifies how a certain kind of message is
to be handled. A particular directive may or may not apply to a
given message. An attempt is made to apply every directive in the
MAIL.DELIVERY file to each message, thus more than one directive
may apply to (and more than one action may be the result of) a
single message.
Any line in the file which begins with a semicolon or an
exclamation point is considered to be a comment and is ignored.
A directive line consists of the following items in order from
left to right:
1-pattern 2-pattern 3-pattern accept action 1-parameter 2-parameter
Items must be delimited by one or more spaces or tabs. Quoted
strings (use double quotes, not single quotes) are allowed as
single items; the quotes are removed from the items as they
are read. A double quote can be obtained by using two double
quotes with no space between them. This form of quote handling is
consistent with that of OpenVMS DCL.
The 1-PARAMETER and 2-PARAMETER items are both optional and can
be omitted if the action ACTION requires no parameters. The first
five items are mandatory and must appear in every directive line.
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