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.\" @(#)mail6.nr 6.3 (Berkeley) 4/17/91
.sh 1 "Command line options"
This section describes command line options for
and what they are used for.
Suppress the initial printing of headers.
Turn on debugging information. Not of general interest.
instead of your system mailbox. If
Ignore tty interrupt signals. Useful on noisy phone lines, which
generate spurious RUBOUT or DELETE characters. It's usually
more effective to change your interrupt character to control\-c,
Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc. Not generally useful, since
/usr/lib/Mail.rc is usually empty.
is used as the subject of the message being composed. If
contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks.
mail instead of your own. Unwitting others often neglect to protect
their mailboxes, but discretion is advised. Essentially,
is a shorthand way of doing
.b "\-f /usr/spool/mail/user".
flag when invoking sendmail. This feature may also be enabled
by setting the the option "verbose".
The following command line flags are also recognized, but are
intended for use by programs invoking
fields of all messages that were either read or deleted.
program and should NOT be used for reading your mail.
Pass on hop count information.
will take the number, increment it, and pass it with
to the mail delivery system.
only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail
Used for network mail forwarding: interpret
as the sender of the message. The
are simply sent along to the mail delivery system. Also,
will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status.
Also restricts formatting of message.
which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice
since mail forwarding is now handled separately. They may