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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1980 The Regents of the University of California. |
| 2 | .\" All rights reserved. | |
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4 | .\" %sccs.include.redist.roff% |
| 5 | .\" | |
| 6 | .\" @(#)mail6.nr 6.3 (Berkeley) %G% | |
| e2a9a8d6 | 7 | .\" |
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8 | .bp |
| 9 | .sh 1 "Command line options" | |
| 10 | .pp | |
| 11 | This section describes command line options for | |
| 12 | .i Mail | |
| 13 | and what they are used for. | |
| 14 | .ip \-N | |
| 15 | Suppress the initial printing of headers. | |
| 16 | .ip \-d | |
| 17 | Turn on debugging information. Not of general interest. | |
| 8c80966d | 18 | .ip "\-f file\ \ " |
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19 | Show the messages in |
| 20 | .i file | |
| 21 | instead of your system mailbox. If | |
| 22 | .i file | |
| 23 | is omitted, | |
| 24 | .i Mail | |
| 25 | reads | |
| 26 | .i mbox | |
| 27 | in your home directory. | |
| 28 | .ip \-i | |
| 29 | Ignore tty interrupt signals. Useful on noisy phone lines, which | |
| 30 | generate spurious RUBOUT or DELETE characters. It's usually | |
| 31 | more effective to change your interrupt character to control\-c, | |
| 32 | for which see the | |
| 33 | .i stty | |
| 34 | shell command. | |
| 35 | .ip \-n | |
| 36 | Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc. Not generally useful, since | |
| 37 | /usr/lib/Mail.rc is usually empty. | |
| 38 | .ip "\-s string" | |
| 39 | Used for sending mail. | |
| 40 | .i String | |
| 41 | is used as the subject of the message being composed. If | |
| 42 | .i string | |
| 43 | contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks. | |
| 44 | .ip "\-u name" | |
| 45 | Read | |
| 46 | .i names's | |
| 47 | mail instead of your own. Unwitting others often neglect to protect | |
| 48 | their mailboxes, but discretion is advised. Essentially, | |
| 49 | .b "\-u user" | |
| 50 | is a shorthand way of doing | |
| 8c80966d | 51 | .b "\-f /usr/spool/mail/user". |
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52 | .ip "\-v" |
| 53 | Use the | |
| 54 | .b \-v | |
| 55 | flag when invoking sendmail. This feature may also be enabled | |
| 56 | by setting the the option "verbose". | |
| 57 | .pp | |
| 58 | The following command line flags are also recognized, but are | |
| 59 | intended for use by programs invoking | |
| 60 | .i Mail | |
| 61 | and not for people. | |
| 62 | .ip "\-T file" | |
| 63 | Arrange to print on | |
| 64 | .i file | |
| 65 | the contents of the | |
| 66 | .i article-id | |
| 67 | fields of all messages that were either read or deleted. | |
| 68 | .b \-T | |
| 69 | is for the | |
| 70 | .i readnews | |
| 71 | program and should NOT be used for reading your mail. | |
| 72 | .ip "\-h number" | |
| 73 | Pass on hop count information. | |
| 74 | .i Mail | |
| 75 | will take the number, increment it, and pass it with | |
| 76 | .b \-h | |
| 77 | to the mail delivery system. | |
| 78 | .b \-h | |
| 79 | only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail | |
| 80 | forwarding. | |
| 81 | .ip "\-r name" | |
| 82 | Used for network mail forwarding: interpret | |
| 83 | .i name | |
| 84 | as the sender of the message. The | |
| 85 | .i name | |
| 86 | and | |
| 87 | .b \-r | |
| 88 | are simply sent along to the mail delivery system. Also, | |
| 89 | .i Mail | |
| 90 | will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status. | |
| 91 | Also restricts formatting of message. | |
| 92 | .pp | |
| 93 | Note that | |
| 94 | .b \-h | |
| 95 | and | |
| 96 | .b \-r , | |
| 97 | which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice | |
| 98 | since mail forwarding is now handled separately. They may | |
| 99 | disappear soon. |