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- .\" @(#)mail6.nr 6.1 (Berkeley) 5/23/86
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- .bp
- .sh 1 "Command line options"
- .pp
- This section describes command line options for
- .i Mail
- and what they are used for.
- .ip \-N
- Suppress the initial printing of headers.
- .ip \-d
- Turn on debugging information. Not of general interest.
- .ip "\-f file"
- Show the messages in
- .i file
- instead of your system mailbox. If
- .i file
- is omitted,
- .i Mail
- reads
- .i mbox
- in your home directory.
- .ip \-i
- 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,
- for which see the
- .i stty
- shell command.
- .ip \-n
- Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc. Not generally useful, since
- /usr/lib/Mail.rc is usually empty.
- .ip "\-s string"
- Used for sending mail.
- .i String
- is used as the subject of the message being composed. If
- .i string
- contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks.
- .ip "\-u name"
- Read
- .i names's
- mail instead of your own. Unwitting others often neglect to protect
- their mailboxes, but discretion is advised. Essentially,
- .b "\-u user"
- is a shorthand way of doing
- .b "\-f /usr/spool/user".
- .ip "\-v"
- Use the
- .b \-v
- flag when invoking sendmail. This feature may also be enabled
- by setting the the option "verbose".
- .pp
- The following command line flags are also recognized, but are
- intended for use by programs invoking
- .i Mail
- and not for people.
- .ip "\-T file"
- Arrange to print on
- .i file
- the contents of the
- .i article-id
- fields of all messages that were either read or deleted.
- .b \-T
- is for the
- .i readnews
- program and should NOT be used for reading your mail.
- .ip "\-h number"
- Pass on hop count information.
- .i Mail
- will take the number, increment it, and pass it with
- .b \-h
- to the mail delivery system.
- .b \-h
- only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail
- forwarding.
- .ip "\-r name"
- Used for network mail forwarding: interpret
- .i name
- as the sender of the message. The
- .i name
- and
- .b \-r
- are simply sent along to the mail delivery system. Also,
- .i Mail
- will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status.
- Also restricts formatting of message.
- .pp
- Note that
- .b \-h
- and
- .b \-r ,
- which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice
- since mail forwarding is now handled separately. They may
- disappear soon.
-