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1.1     ! root        1: .TH MAIL 1
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_users
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: mail \(mi  send or receive mail
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B mail
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B -mpren
        !             9: ]
        !            10: [
        !            11: .B -f
        !            12: .I file
        !            13: ]
        !            14: .PP
        !            15: .B mail
        !            16: [
        !            17: .B -#
        !            18: ]
        !            19: .I person ...
        !            20: .PP
        !            21: .B mail
        !            22: .PP
        !            23: .B /usr/lib/upas/gone.fishing
        !            24: [
        !            25: .I mesg
        !            26: ]
        !            27: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            28: .SS "Printing Mail"
        !            29: When
        !            30: .I persons
        !            31: are not named, 
        !            32: .I mail 
        !            33: displays your incoming computer mail.
        !            34: The options are:
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: .B -r
        !            37: Print mail in first-in, first-out order.
        !            38: .PD 0
        !            39: .TP
        !            40: .B -p
        !            41: Print all the mail messages without prompting for commands.
        !            42: .TP
        !            43: .B -m
        !            44: Use a manual style of interface, i.e., print no messages unless directed to.
        !            45: .TP
        !            46: .BI -f " file"
        !            47: Use
        !            48: .IR file ,
        !            49: e.g.
        !            50: .LR mbox ,
        !            51: as if it were the mailbox.
        !            52: .TP
        !            53: .B -e
        !            54: Check silently if there is anything in the mailbox;
        !            55: return zero (true) if so, non-zero otherwise.
        !            56: .TP
        !            57: .B -n
        !            58: Announce mail to the control terminal when it arrives.
        !            59: Do not print mail now.
        !            60: .PD
        !            61: .PP
        !            62: .I Mail
        !            63: prints a user's mail, message by message,
        !            64: prompting between messages.
        !            65: After printing a prompt
        !            66: .I mail
        !            67: reads a line from the standard input
        !            68: to direct disposition of the message.
        !            69: Commands, as in
        !            70: .IR ed (1),
        !            71: are of the form
        !            72: .RI `[ range ]
        !            73: .I command
        !            74: .RI [ arguments ]'.
        !            75: The command is applied to each message in the (optional) range
        !            76: addressed by message number and/or regular expressions
        !            77: in the style of
        !            78: .IR ed (1).
        !            79: A regular expression in slashes searches among header
        !            80: (postmark) lines; an expression in backslashes searches on
        !            81: message content.
        !            82: .TP 1.1i
        !            83: .I address
        !            84: to indicate a single message header
        !            85: .PD0
        !            86: .TP
        !            87: .IB address , address
        !            88: to indicate a range of contiguous message headers
        !            89: .TP
        !            90: .BI g/ expression /
        !            91: to indicate all message headers matching the regular
        !            92: .I expression.
        !            93: .PD
        !            94: .PP
        !            95: The commands are:
        !            96: .PD 0
        !            97: .TP 1.1i
        !            98: .B b
        !            99: Print the headers for the next ten messages.
        !           100: .TP
        !           101: .B d
        !           102: Mark message for deletion on exiting mail.
        !           103: .TP
        !           104: .B h
        !           105: Print the disposition, size in characters, and header line of the message.
        !           106: .TP
        !           107: .BI m " person ...
        !           108: Mail the message to the named
        !           109: .I persons.
        !           110: .TP
        !           111: .BI M " person ...
        !           112: Same as
        !           113: .BI m
        !           114: except that lines typed
        !           115: on the terminal (terminated by
        !           116: .B EOT or 
        !           117: .LR . )
        !           118: are prepended to the message.
        !           119: .TP
        !           120: .B p
        !           121: Print message. An interrupt stops the printing.
        !           122: .TP
        !           123: .B r
        !           124: Reply to the sender of the message.
        !           125: .TP
        !           126: .B R
        !           127: Like 
        !           128: .L r
        !           129: but with the message
        !           130: appended to the reply.
        !           131: .TP
        !           132: .BI s " file"
        !           133: (Save) Append the message to the named
        !           134: .I file
        !           135: .RL ( mbox
        !           136: default, in 
        !           137: .B HOME 
        !           138: directory if known, see
        !           139: .IR environ (5)).
        !           140: .TP
        !           141: .B q
        !           142: Put undeleted mail back in the mailbox and stop.
        !           143: .TP
        !           144: EOT (control-D)
        !           145: Same as 
        !           146: .LR q .
        !           147: .TP
        !           148: .BI w " file
        !           149: Same as
        !           150: .B s
        !           151: with the mail header line(s) stripped.
        !           152: .TP
        !           153: .B u
        !           154: Remove mark for deletion.
        !           155: .TP
        !           156: .B x
        !           157: Exit, without changing the mailbox file.
        !           158: .TP
        !           159: .B ?
        !           160: Print a command summary.
        !           161: .TP
        !           162: .BI | command
        !           163: Run the
        !           164: .I command
        !           165: with the message as standard input.
        !           166: .TP
        !           167: .BI ! command
        !           168: Escape to the shell to do
        !           169: .I command.
        !           170: .TP
        !           171: .B \&=
        !           172: Print the number of the current message.
        !           173: .PD
        !           174: .ne 5
        !           175: .SS "Sending Mail
        !           176: .PP
        !           177: When
        !           178: .I persons
        !           179: are named,
        !           180: .I mail
        !           181: takes the standard input up to an end-of-file,
        !           182: or (if input is from a terminal) to a line consisting of a single
        !           183: .L .
        !           184: and adds it to each
        !           185: .I person's
        !           186: mailbox.
        !           187: The message is automatically postmarked with the
        !           188: sender's name and date.
        !           189: Lines that look like postmarks are
        !           190: prefixed with 
        !           191: .LR > .
        !           192: .PP
        !           193: .I Person
        !           194: is a login name on the local system or a
        !           195: network name for a remote system; see
        !           196: .IR mail (6).
        !           197: .PP
        !           198: Option
        !           199: .B -#
        !           200: does not send mail, but reports instead
        !           201: how the mail would be sent: the sender,
        !           202: the next machine to handle the mail, and the recipient's
        !           203: address relative to that machine.
        !           204: The report reflects address translation; see
        !           205: .IR mail (6)
        !           206: and
        !           207: .IR upas (8).
        !           208: .PP
        !           209: .IR Sh (1)
        !           210: and
        !           211: .IR vismon (9.1)
        !           212: have mechanisms for timely notification of incoming mail.
        !           213: .SS Mailboxes
        !           214: Each user
        !           215: owns a mailbox for incoming mail, normally
        !           216: .BI /usr/spool/mail/ person.
        !           217: .I Mail
        !           218: creates mailboxes as necessary, and never removes them.
        !           219: Mailboxes are created readable but not writable by others.
        !           220: For more privacy, a mailbox's owner may make it unreadable; see
        !           221: .IR chmod (2).
        !           222: .PP
        !           223: If a mailbox contains the sole line
        !           224: .IP
        !           225: .B Forward to
        !           226: .I name,
        !           227: .LP
        !           228: mail for that mailbox is sent instead to
        !           229: .I name.
        !           230: .I Name
        !           231: may be a list of names.
        !           232: If the mailbox contains 
        !           233: .IP
        !           234: .B Pipe to
        !           235: .I command
        !           236: .LP
        !           237: the mail is sent to the standard input of
        !           238: .I command
        !           239: instead of being appended to the mailbox.
        !           240: The command is run with the userid and
        !           241: groupid of the mailbox's owner.
        !           242: (On System V machines, the set userid bit must be set.)
        !           243: .PP
        !           244: .I Mail
        !           245: checks centralized forwarding lists before looking in mailboxes.
        !           246: If you have accounts on many machines, but wish to receive
        !           247: mail on only one, it is usually easier to register
        !           248: in forwarding lists than to install 
        !           249: .L Forward to
        !           250: in many mailboxes; see
        !           251: .IR upas (8).
        !           252: .PP
        !           253: To use 
        !           254: .I mail
        !           255: as an answering machine while you are away,
        !           256: replace the contents of your mailbox
        !           257: with a single line like
        !           258: .IP
        !           259: .BI "Pipe to /usr/lib/upas/gone.fishing /usr/" you / mesg
        !           260: .LP
        !           261: The
        !           262: .I mesg
        !           263: file will be sent (just once) to everyone who
        !           264: sends you mail; arriving messages will be collected in
        !           265: .B gone.mail
        !           266: in your home directory.
        !           267: If you do not name a
        !           268: .I mesg
        !           269: file,
        !           270: .FR /usr/lib/upas/gone.msg 
        !           271: will be used by default.
        !           272: .SH FILES
        !           273: .TF /usr/spool/mail/mail.log
        !           274: .TP
        !           275: .F /usr/spool/mail/mail.log
        !           276: mail log file
        !           277: .TP
        !           278: .F /usr/spool/mail/*
        !           279: mailboxes
        !           280: .TP
        !           281: .F /etc/passwd
        !           282: to identify sender and locate persons
        !           283: .TP
        !           284: .F $HOME/mbox
        !           285: saved mail
        !           286: .TP
        !           287: .F $HOME/dead.letter
        !           288: unmailable text
        !           289: .TP
        !           290: .F /usr/lib/upas/edmail
        !           291: the program for editing mail
        !           292: .TP
        !           293: .F /usr/lib/upas/send
        !           294: the program for sending mail
        !           295: .TP
        !           296: .F /bin/rmail
        !           297: a link to
        !           298: .FR /bin/mail ,
        !           299: used to receive remote mail
        !           300: .TP
        !           301: .F /usr/lib/upas/gone.msg
        !           302: .TP
        !           303: .F $HOME/gone.mail
        !           304: .TP
        !           305: .F $HOME/gone.addrs
        !           306: list of senders answered by
        !           307: .I gone.fishing
        !           308: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !           309: .IR mailx (1),
        !           310: .IR write (1), 
        !           311: .IR vismon (9.1), 
        !           312: .IR uucp (1), 
        !           313: .IR mail (6), 
        !           314: .IR upas (8),
        !           315: .IR smtp (8)
        !           316: .SH BUGS
        !           317: Long headers are truncated for header search.

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