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

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