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                      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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