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1.1     ! root        1: .TH Mail 1
        !             2: .SH NAME
        !             3: Mail \- send and receive mail
        !             4: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             5: .B Mail
        !             6: [
        !             7: .I option
        !             8: ]
        !             9: ...
        !            10: [
        !            11: .I person
        !            12: ]
        !            13: ...
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Mail 
        !            16: with 
        !            17: .I persons
        !            18: named reads a letter from the standard input and sends it to them.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: .I Mail
        !            21: otherwise presents your mail.
        !            22: It responds to commands, each typed on a line by itself,
        !            23: possibly with arguments.
        !            24: A command need not be typed in its
        !            25: entirety \- the first command that matches the typed prefix is used.
        !            26: A missing message list is interpreted as a singleton:
        !            27: whichever of the current message,
        !            28: the nearest message ahead, or the nearest message back
        !            29: satisfies the command's requirements.
        !            30: .PP
        !            31: The following table describes the commands:
        !            32: .PP
        !            33: .ta \w'\f5alternates\fP 'u +\w'Arguments 'u
        !            34: .de fq
        !            35: \f5\\$1\\fP    \f5\\$2\\fP     \\f5\\$3\\fP
        !            36: ..
        !            37: .nf
        !            38: .fq !  "Single command escape to shell"
        !            39: .fq -  "Back up to previous message"
        !            40: .fq Reply      "Compose a reply to a message"
        !            41: .fq alias      "Define an alias as a set of user names"
        !            42: .fq alternates "List other names you are known by"
        !            43: .fq chdir      "Change working directory, default home"
        !            44: .fq copy       "Copy a message to a file or folder, or pipe it to a command"
        !            45: .fq delete     "Delete a list of messages"
        !            46: .fq dt "Delete message, type next"
        !            47: .fq endif      "End of \f5if\fR conditional statement"
        !            48: .fq edit       "Edit a list of messages"
        !            49: .fq else       "Part of \f5if\fR conditional"
        !            50: .fq exit       "Leave mail without changing anything"
        !            51: .fq file       "Interrogate/change current mail file"
        !            52: .fq folder     "Same as file"
        !            53: .fq folders    "List your folder directory"
        !            54: .fq from       "List headers of a list of messages"
        !            55: .fq headers    "List current window of messages"
        !            56: .fq help       "Print brief summary of Mail commands"
        !            57: .fq hold       "Same as preserve"
        !            58: .fq if "Conditional execution of Mail commands"
        !            59: .fq ignore     "Do not print listed headers"
        !            60: .fq mail       "Send mail to specified names"
        !            61: .fq mbox       "Arrange to save a list of messages in mbox"
        !            62: .fq next       "Go to next message and type it"
        !            63: .fq preserve   "Arrange to leave list of messages in mbox"
        !            64: .fq quit       "Leave Mail; update mbox as appropriate"
        !            65: .fq reply      "Reply to author of message only"
        !            66: .fq save       "Append messages, with headers, to a file, or pipe it to a command"
        !            67: .fq set        "Set binary or valued options"
        !            68: .fq shell      "Invoke an interactive shell"
        !            69: .fq top        "Print first so many (5 by default) lines of list of messages"
        !            70: .fq type       "Print messages"
        !            71: .fq undelete   "Undelete list of messages"
        !            72: .fq unset      "Undo the operation of a set"
        !            73: .fq visual     "Invoke visual editor on a list of messages"
        !            74: .fq write      "Append messages, without headers, to a file, or pipe it to a command"
        !            75: .fq z  "Scroll to next/previous screenful of headers"
        !            76: .fi
        !            77: .PP
        !            78: The following table describes the options for
        !            79: .BR set .
        !            80: Each option is
        !            81: shown as being either a binary or valued option.
        !            82: .PP
        !            83: .nf
        !            84: .fq EDITOR     valued  "Pathname of editor for \f5~e\fP and \f5edit\fP"
        !            85: .fq SHELL      valued  "Pathname of shell for \f5shell\fP, \f5~!\fP and \f5!\fP"
        !            86: .fq VISUAL     valued  "Pathname of screen editor for \f5~v\fP, \f5visual\fP"
        !            87: .fq append     binary  "Always append messages to end of \fImbox\fP"
        !            88: .fq ask        binary  "Prompt user for Subject: field when sending"
        !            89: .fq askcc      binary  "Prompt user for additional Cc's at end of message"
        !            90: .fq autoprint  binary  "Print next message after \f5delete\fP"
        !            91: .fq crt        valued  "Minimum number of lines before using \fImore\fP"
        !            92: .fq dot        binary  "Accept . alone on line to terminate message input"
        !            93: .fq escape     valued  "Escape character to be used instead of ~"
        !            94: .fq folder     valued  "Directory to store folders in"
        !            95: .fq hold       binary  "Hold messages in \fImbox\fP by default"
        !            96: .fq ignore     binary  "Ignore \s-2RUBOUT\s0 while sending mail"
        !            97: .fq ignoreeof  binary  "Don't terminate letters/command input with ^D"
        !            98: .fq keep       binary  "Don't unlink \fImbox\fP when empty"
        !            99: .fq keepsave   binary  "Don't delete \f5save\fPd messages by default"
        !           100: .fq metoo      binary  "Include sending user in aliases"
        !           101: .fq nosave     binary  "Don't save partial letter in \fIdead.letter\fP"
        !           102: .fq quiet      binary  "Suppress printing of \fIMail\fP version"
        !           103: .fq record     valued  "File to save all outgoing mail in"
        !           104: .fq screen     valued  "Size of window of message headers for \f5z\fP, etc."
        !           105: .fq sendmail   valued  "Choose alternate mail delivery system"
        !           106: .fq toplines   valued  "Number of lines to print in \f5top\fP"
        !           107: .fi
        !           108: .PP
        !           109: The following table summarizes tilde escapes available
        !           110: while entering a letter.
        !           111: .PP
        !           112: Escape Arguments       Description
        !           113: .nf
        !           114: .de fz
        !           115: \f5\\$1\fP     \fI\\$2\\fP     \\$3
        !           116: ..
        !           117: .fz ~! command "Execute shell command"
        !           118: .fz ~c name ...        "Add names to Cc: field"
        !           119: .fz ~d         "Read \f5dead.letter\fP into message"
        !           120: .fz ~e         "Invoke text editor on partial message"
        !           121: .fz ~f messages        "Read named messages"
        !           122: .fz ~h         "Edit the header fields"
        !           123: .fz ~m messages        "Read named messages, right shift by tab"
        !           124: .fz ~p         "Print message entered so far"
        !           125: .fz ~q         "Abort entry of letter; like \s-2RUBOUT\s0"
        !           126: .fz ~r filename        "Read file into message"
        !           127: .fz ~s string  "Set Subject: field to \fIstring\fP"
        !           128: .fz ~t name ...        "Add names to \f%To:\fP field"
        !           129: .fz ~v         "Invoke screen editor on message"
        !           130: .fz ~w filename        "Write message on file"
        !           131: .fz ~\^|       command "Pipe message through \fIcommand\fP"
        !           132: .fz ~~ string  "Quote a \f5~\fP in front of \fIstring\fP"
        !           133: .fi
        !           134: .PP
        !           135: The following table shows the command line flags.
        !           136: .PP
        !           137: .ta \w'\f5-h number\fP 'u
        !           138: .B
        !           139: .nf
        !           140: .fz -N         "Suppress the initial printing of headers"
        !           141: .fz -T file    "Article-id's of read/deleted messages to \fIfile\fP"
        !           142: .fz -d         "Turn on debugging"
        !           143: .fz -f file    "Show messages in \fIfile\fP or \fI$HOME/mbox\fP"
        !           144: .fz -h number  "Pass on hop count for mail forwarding"
        !           145: .fz -i "Ignore tty interrupt signals"
        !           146: .fz -n "Inhibit reading of /usr/lib/Mail.rc"
        !           147: .fz -r name    "Pass on \fIname\fP for mail forwarding"
        !           148: .fz -s string  "Use \fIstring\fP as subject in outgoing mail"
        !           149: .fz -u name    "Read \fIname's\fP mail instead of your own"
        !           150: .fi
        !           151: .PP
        !           152: Notes:
        !           153: .B -T ,
        !           154: .B -d ,
        !           155: .B -h ,
        !           156: and
        !           157: .B -r
        !           158: are not intended for human consumption.
        !           159: .SH FILES
        !           160: .TF /usr/lib/Mail.help*
        !           161: .TP
        !           162: .F /usr/spool/mail/*
        !           163: post office
        !           164: .TP
        !           165: .F $HOME/mbox
        !           166: your old mail
        !           167: .TP
        !           168: .F $HOME/.mailrc
        !           169: file giving initial mail commands
        !           170: .TP
        !           171: .F /tmp/R#
        !           172: temporary for editor escape
        !           173: .TP
        !           174: .F /usr/lib/Mail.help*
        !           175: help files
        !           176: .TP
        !           177: .F /usr/lib/Mail.rc
        !           178: system initialization file
        !           179: .TP
        !           180: .F /bin/mail
        !           181: to do actual mailing
        !           182: .fi
        !           183: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           184: .IR mail (1)
        !           185: .br
        !           186: `The Mail Reference Manual,'
        !           187: .I Berkeley BSD 4.1 UNIX User's Manual

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