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MAILCOMPAT(1)							 MAILCOMPAT(1)

NAME
       mailcompat - provide SunOS compatibility for Solaris mailbox format

DESCRIPTION
       mailcompat  is  a  program  to  provide SunOS 4.x compatability for the
       Solaris mailbox format. You would typically run	mailcompat to be  able
       to  read	 mail on a workstation running SunOS 4.x when your mail server
       is running Solaris.

       Enabling mailcompat creates an entry in	your   .forward	 file,	if  it
       exists.	 If this file does not exist, mailcompat will create it.  Dis‐
       abling mailcompat will remove the entry from the .forward file, and  if
       this was the only entry, will remove the entire file.

       To execute mailcompat, log onto the Solaris mail server and enter mail‐
       compat on the command line. Answer the queries provided by the program.

USAGE
       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mailcompat when
       encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Examples of the mailcompat feature.

       The  following  example	enables	 the  mailcompat  feature for the user
       "john".

	 example% mailcompat
	 This program can be used to store your mail in a format
	 that you can read with SunOS 4.X based mail readers
	 To enable the mailcompat feature a ".forward" file is created.
	 Would you like to enable the mailcompat feature? Y
	 Mailcompat feature ENABLED.Run mailcompat with no arguments to remove it
	 example%

       The following example disables the  mailcompat  feature	for  the  user
       "john".

	 example% mailcompat
	 This program can be used to store your mail in a format
	 that you can read with SunOS 4.X based mail readers
	 You have a .forward file in your home directory  containing:
	     "|/usr/bin/mailcompat johns"
	 Would you like to remove it and disable the mailcompat feature? y
	 Back to normal reception of mail.
	 example%

FILES
       ~/.forward
		     list of recipients for forwarding messages

SEE ALSO
       mailx(1), attributes(5), largefile(5)

				  Aug 4, 1994			 MAILCOMPAT(1)
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