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1.1     ! root        1: .TH NFMAIL 8 "University of Illinois"
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: nfmail \- accept mail for a notesfile
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B nfmail
        !             6: [
        !             7: .B "-F"
        !             8: ] [
        !             9: .B "-s"
        !            10: ] [
        !            11: .B "-d"
        !            12: ] [
        !            13: .B "-m"
        !            14: mailrc
        !            15: ]
        !            16: topic
        !            17: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            18: .I Nfmail
        !            19: is a mail-receiving program which takes incoming mail, parses
        !            20: subject and author information, and places the letter in
        !            21: a notesfile.
        !            22: Replies, marked by a ``Re:'' prefix in the Subject line,
        !            23: are placed in the notesfile as responses if a basenote with
        !            24: the appropriate title can be found.
        !            25: Normally, the matching of titles based on the ``Re:'' prefixes is
        !            26: done so that a match only occurs when the basenote titles starts
        !            27: with the remainder of the string.
        !            28: Thus, ``Re: this'' will match as a response of the 
        !            29: basenote ``this is it'', but will not match a basenote
        !            30: titled ``see this note''.
        !            31: Specify the
        !            32: .B -F
        !            33: option if you wish to remove the restriction that matches start
        !            34: at the beginning of the title.
        !            35: .PP
        !            36: The 
        !            37: .B "-s"
        !            38: option tells
        !            39: .I nfmail
        !            40: to strip header lines from the letter before placing it in
        !            41: the notesfile.
        !            42: Normally, all header information is retained.
        !            43: The ``Subject'', and ``From'' header lines are never removed from
        !            44: the letter.
        !            45: The file
        !            46: .I "/usr/lib/Mail.rc"
        !            47: defines default mail reading characteristics on many BSD systems.
        !            48: This file can contain lists of header lines to be ignored when
        !            49: presenting messages to users.
        !            50: .I Nfmail
        !            51: reads this file to determine which header lines are normally ignored.
        !            52: If this file is missing,
        !            53: .I nfmail
        !            54: doesn't strip any header lines.
        !            55: .PP
        !            56: The 
        !            57: .B "-m"
        !            58: option specifies further files, typically ``.mailrc'' files,
        !            59: to search for header lines to ignore.
        !            60: More than one
        !            61: .B "-m"
        !            62: option can appear on the command line.
        !            63: .PP
        !            64: Use the
        !            65: .B "-d"
        !            66: option when you want the inserted note or response to be flagged as
        !            67: a director message.
        !            68: .PP
        !            69: .I Nfmail
        !            70: usually appears as a mail alias in the file ``/usr/lib/aliases''
        !            71: in lines such as:
        !            72: 
        !            73: problems:      "|/usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail -s problems"
        !            74: .SH BUGS
        !            75: .PP
        !            76: The dependence on ``/usr/lib/Mail.rc'' for lists of headers to be ignored
        !            77: should be cleaned up.
        !            78: Perhaps something where absence of the file
        !            79: means to strip all headers except the Subject and From lines.
        !            80: .SH FILES
        !            81: .PD 0
        !            82: .TP 40
        !            83: /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/nfmail
        !            84: where this program lives.
        !            85: .TP 40
        !            86: /usr/lib/aliases
        !            87: Mail aliases (BSD UNIX)
        !            88: .TP 40
        !            89: /usr/lib/Mail.rc
        !            90: Mail configuration templates
        !            91: .PD
        !            92: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            93: delivermail(8),
        !            94: notes(1),
        !            95: Mail(1),
        !            96: sendmail(8),
        !            97: .br
        !            98: .ul
        !            99: The Notesfile Reference Manual
        !           100: .SH AUTHORS
        !           101: .nf
        !           102: Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%[email protected])
        !           103: Department of Computer Science
        !           104: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
        !           105: Urbana, IL
        !           106: .sp
        !           107: Rob Kolstad ([email protected])
        !           108: CONVEX Computer Corporation
        !           109: Richardson, TX
        !           110: .fi

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