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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-success(1), mailping-latency(1)

AUTHOR

       Tommi Virtanen <tv@havoc.fi>
       Havoc Consulting
           Author.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2004 Havoc Consulting

mailping 0.                       2004-04-15