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+.\" @(#)mail.1 8.8 (Berkeley) 4/28/95
+.\"
+.Dd April 28, 1995
.Dt MAIL 1
.Os BSD 4
.Sh NAME
.It Fl u
Is equivalent to:
.Pp
-.Dl mail -f /var/spool/mail/user
+.Dl mail -f /var/mail/user
.El
.Ss Sending mail
To send a message to one or more people,
.Ic ignore
is executed with no arguments, it lists the current set of
ignored fields.
+.It Ic inc
+Incorporate any new messages that have arrived while mail
+is being read.
+The new messages are added to the end of the message list,
+and the current message is reset to be the first new mail message.
+This does not renumber the existing message list, nor does
+does it cause any changes made so far to be saved.
.It Ic mail
.Pq Ic m
Takes as argument login names and distribution group names and sends
end of each message.
Responding with a newline indicates your
satisfaction with the current list.
+.It Ar autoinc
+Causes new mail to be automatically incorporated when it arrives.
+Setting this is similar to issuing the
+.Ic inc
+command at each prompt, except that the current message is not
+reset when new mail arrives.
.It Ar autoprint
Causes the
.Ic delete
If this option is set, then a message-list specifier in the form ``/x:y''
will expand to all messages containing the substring ``y'' in the header
field ``x''. The string search is case insensitive.
+If ``x'' is ommitted, it will default to the ``Subject'' header field.
+The form ``/to:y'' is a special case, and will expand
+to all messages containing the substring ``y'' in the ``To'', ``Cc''
+or ``Bcc'' header fields.
+The check for "to" is case sensitive, so that
+``/To:y'' can be used to limit the search for ``y'' to just
+the ``To:'' field.
.It Ar verbose
Setting the option
.Ar verbose
environment variables.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/misc/Mail.help* -compact
-.It Pa /var/spool/mail/*
+.It Pa /var/mail/*
Post office.
.It ~/mbox
User's old mail.
.It ~/.mailrc
File giving initial mail commands.
+This can be overridden by setting the
+.Ev MAILRC
+environment variable.
.It Pa /tmp/R*
Temporary files.
.It Pa /usr/share/misc/Mail.help*
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