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                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)mail6.nr    6.1 (Berkeley) 5/23/86
                      6: .\"
                      7: .bp
                      8: .sh 1 "Command line options"
                      9: .pp
                     10: This section describes command line options for
                     11: .i Mail
                     12: and what they are used for.
                     13: .ip \-N
                     14: Suppress the initial printing of headers.
                     15: .ip \-d
                     16: Turn on debugging information.  Not of general interest.
                     17: .ip "\-f file\ \ "
                     18: Show the messages in
                     19: .i file
                     20: instead of your system mailbox.  If
                     21: .i file
                     22: is omitted,
                     23: .i Mail
                     24: reads
                     25: .i mbox
                     26: in your home directory.
                     27: .ip \-i
                     28: Ignore tty interrupt signals.  Useful on noisy phone lines, which
                     29: generate spurious RUBOUT or DELETE characters.  It's usually
                     30: more effective to change your interrupt character to control\-c,
                     31: for which see the
                     32: .i stty
                     33: shell command.
                     34: .ip \-n
                     35: Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc.  Not generally useful, since
                     36: /usr/lib/Mail.rc is usually empty.
                     37: .ip "\-s string"
                     38: Used for sending mail.
                     39: .i String
                     40: is used as the subject of the message being composed.  If
                     41: .i string
                     42: contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks.
                     43: .ip "\-u name"
                     44: Read
                     45: .i names's
                     46: mail instead of your own.  Unwitting others often neglect to protect
                     47: their mailboxes, but discretion is advised. Essentially,
                     48: .b "\-u user"
                     49: is a shorthand way of doing
                     50: .b "\-f /usr/spool/mail/user".
                     51: .ip "\-v"
                     52: Use the
                     53: .b \-v
                     54: flag when invoking sendmail. This feature may also be enabled
                     55: by setting the the option "verbose".
                     56: .pp
                     57: The following command line flags are also recognized, but are
                     58: intended for use by programs invoking
                     59: .i Mail
                     60: and not for people.
                     61: .ip "\-T file"
                     62: Arrange to print on
                     63: .i file
                     64: the contents of the
                     65: .i article-id
                     66: fields of all messages that were either read or deleted.
                     67: .b \-T
                     68: is for the
                     69: .i readnews
                     70: program and should NOT be used for reading your mail.
                     71: .ip "\-h number"
                     72: Pass on hop count information.
                     73: .i Mail
                     74: will take the number, increment it, and pass it with
                     75: .b \-h
                     76: to the mail delivery system.
                     77: .b \-h
                     78: only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail
                     79: forwarding.
                     80: .ip "\-r name"
                     81: Used for network mail forwarding:  interpret
                     82: .i name
                     83: as the sender of the message.  The
                     84: .i name
                     85: and
                     86: .b \-r
                     87: are simply sent along to the mail delivery system.  Also,
                     88: .i Mail
                     89: will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status.
                     90: Also restricts formatting of message.
                     91: .pp
                     92: Note that
                     93: .b \-h
                     94: and
                     95: .b \-r ,
                     96: which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice
                     97: since mail forwarding is now handled separately.  They may
                     98: disappear soon.

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