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1.1 ! root 1: .bp ! 2: .sh 1 "Additional features" ! 3: .pp ! 4: This section describes some additional commands of use for ! 5: reading your mail, setting options, and handling lists of messages. ! 6: .sh 2 "Message lists" ! 7: .pp ! 8: Several ! 9: .i Mail ! 10: commands accept a list of messages as an argument. ! 11: Along with ! 12: .b type ! 13: and ! 14: .b delete , ! 15: described in section 2, ! 16: there is the ! 17: .b from ! 18: command, which prints the message headers associated with the ! 19: message list passed to it. ! 20: The ! 21: .b from ! 22: command is particularly useful in conjunction with some of the ! 23: message list features described below. ! 24: .pp ! 25: A ! 26: .i "message list" ! 27: consists of a list of message numbers, ranges, and names, ! 28: separated by spaces or tabs. Message numbers may be either ! 29: decimal numbers, which directly specify messages, or one of the ! 30: special characters ! 31: .q \(ua ! 32: .q "." ! 33: or ! 34: .q "$" ! 35: to specify the first relevant, current, or last ! 36: relevant message, respectively. ! 37: .i Relevant ! 38: here means, for most commands ! 39: .q "not deleted" ! 40: and ! 41: .q "deleted" ! 42: for the ! 43: .b undelete ! 44: command. ! 45: .pp ! 46: A range of messages consists of two message numbers (of the form ! 47: described in the previous paragraph) separated by a dash. ! 48: Thus, to print the first four messages, use ! 49: .(l ! 50: type 1\-4 ! 51: .)l ! 52: and to print all the messages from the current message to the last ! 53: message, use ! 54: .(l ! 55: type .\-$ ! 56: .)l ! 57: .pp ! 58: A ! 59: .i name ! 60: is a user name. The user names given in the message list are ! 61: collected together and each message selected by other means ! 62: is checked to make sure it was sent by one of the named users. ! 63: If the message consists entirely of user names, then every ! 64: message sent by one those users that is ! 65: .i relevant ! 66: (in the sense described earlier) ! 67: is selected. Thus, to print every message sent to you by ! 68: .q root, ! 69: do ! 70: .(l ! 71: type root ! 72: .)l ! 73: .pp ! 74: As a shorthand notation, you can specify simply ! 75: .q * ! 76: to get every ! 77: .i relevant ! 78: (same sense) ! 79: message. Thus, ! 80: .(l ! 81: type * ! 82: .)l ! 83: prints all undeleted messages, ! 84: .(l ! 85: delete * ! 86: .)l ! 87: deletes all undeleted messages, and ! 88: .(l ! 89: undelete * ! 90: .)l ! 91: undeletes all deleted messages. ! 92: .pp ! 93: You can search for the presence of a word in subject lines with ! 94: .b / . ! 95: For example, to print the headers of all messages that contain the ! 96: word ! 97: .q PASCAL, ! 98: do: ! 99: .(l ! 100: from /pascal ! 101: .)l ! 102: Note that subject searching ignores upper/lower case differences. ! 103: .sh 2 "List of commands" ! 104: .pp ! 105: This section describes all the ! 106: .i Mail ! 107: commands available when ! 108: receiving mail. ! 109: .ip \fB!\fP ! 110: Used to preface a command to be executed by the shell. ! 111: .ip \fB\-\fP ! 112: The ! 113: .rb \- ! 114: command goes to the previous message and prints it. The ! 115: .rb \- ! 116: command may be given a decimal number ! 117: .i n ! 118: as an argument, in which case the ! 119: .i n th ! 120: previous message is gone to and printed. ! 121: .ip \fBReply\fP ! 122: Note the capital R in the name. ! 123: Frame a reply to a one or more messages. ! 124: The reply (or replies if you are using this on multiple messages) ! 125: will be sent ONLY to the person who sent you the message ! 126: (respectively, the set of people who sent the messages you are ! 127: replying to). ! 128: You can ! 129: add people using the ! 130: .b ~t ! 131: and ! 132: .b ~c ! 133: tilde escapes. The subject in your reply is formed by prefacing the ! 134: subject in the original message with ! 135: .q "Re:" ! 136: unless it already began thus. ! 137: If the original message included a ! 138: .q "reply-to" ! 139: header field, the reply will go ! 140: .i only ! 141: to the recipient named by ! 142: .q "reply-to." ! 143: You type in your message using the same conventions available to you ! 144: through the ! 145: .b mail ! 146: command. ! 147: The ! 148: .b Reply ! 149: command is especially useful for replying to messages that were sent ! 150: to enormous distribution groups when you really just want to ! 151: send a message to the originator. Use it often. ! 152: .ip \fBalias\fP ! 153: Define a name to stand for a set of other names. ! 154: This is used when you want to send messages to a certain ! 155: group of people and want to avoid retyping their names. ! 156: For example ! 157: .(l ! 158: alias project john sue willie kathryn ! 159: .)l ! 160: creates an alias ! 161: .i project ! 162: which expands to the four people John, Sue, Willie, and Kathryn. ! 163: .ip \fBalternates\fP ! 164: If you have accounts on several machines, you may find it convenient ! 165: to use the /usr/lib/aliases on all the machines except one to direct ! 166: your mail to a single account. ! 167: The ! 168: .b alternates ! 169: command is used to inform ! 170: .i Mail ! 171: that each of these other addresses is really ! 172: .i you . ! 173: .i Alternates ! 174: takes a list of user names and remembers that they are all actually you. ! 175: When you ! 176: .b reply ! 177: to messages that were sent to one of these alternate names, ! 178: .i Mail ! 179: will not bother to send a copy of the message to this other address (which ! 180: would simply be directed back to you by the alias mechanism). ! 181: If ! 182: .i alternates ! 183: is given no argument, it lists the current set of alternate names. ! 184: .b Alternates ! 185: is usually used in the .mailrc file. ! 186: .ip \fBchdir\fP ! 187: The ! 188: .b chdir ! 189: command allows you to change your current directory. ! 190: .b Chdir ! 191: takes a single argument, which is taken to be the pathname of ! 192: the directory to change to. If no argument is given, ! 193: .b chdir ! 194: changes to your home directory. ! 195: .ip \fBcopy\fP ! 196: The ! 197: .b copy ! 198: command does the same thing that ! 199: .b save ! 200: does, except that it does not mark the messages it is used on ! 201: for deletion when you quit. ! 202: .ip \fBdelete\fP ! 203: Deletes a list of messages. Deleted messages can be reclaimed ! 204: with the ! 205: .b undelete ! 206: command. ! 207: .ip \fBdt\fP ! 208: The ! 209: .b dt ! 210: command deletes the current message and prints the next message. ! 211: It is useful for quickly reading and disposing of mail. ! 212: .ip \fBedit\fP ! 213: To edit individual messages using the text editor, the ! 214: .b edit ! 215: command is provided. The ! 216: .b edit ! 217: command takes a list of messages as described under the ! 218: .b type ! 219: command and processes each by writing it into the file ! 220: Message\c ! 221: .i x ! 222: where ! 223: .i x ! 224: is the message number being edited and executing the text editor on it. ! 225: When you have edited the message to your satisfaction, write the message ! 226: out and quit, upon which ! 227: .i Mail ! 228: will read the message back and remove the file. ! 229: .b Edit ! 230: may be abbreviated to ! 231: .b e . ! 232: .ip \fBelse\fP ! 233: Marks the end of the then-part of an ! 234: .b if ! 235: statement and the beginning of the ! 236: part to take effect if the condition of the ! 237: .b if ! 238: statement is false. ! 239: .ip \fBendif\fP ! 240: Marks the end of an ! 241: .b if ! 242: statement. ! 243: .ip \fBexit\fP ! 244: Leave ! 245: .i Mail ! 246: without updating the system mailbox or the file your were reading. ! 247: Thus, if you accidentally delete several messages, you can use ! 248: .b exit ! 249: to avoid scrambling your mailbox. ! 250: .ip \fBfile\fP ! 251: The same as ! 252: .b folder . ! 253: .ip \fBfolders\fP ! 254: List the names of the folders in your folder directory. ! 255: .ip \fBfolder\fP ! 256: The ! 257: .b folder ! 258: command switches to a new mail file or folder. With no arguments, it ! 259: tells you which file you are currently reading. If you give ! 260: it an argument, it will write out changes (such as deletions) ! 261: you have made in the current file and read the new file. ! 262: Some special conventions are recognized for the name: ! 263: .(b ! 264: .TS ! 265: center; ! 266: c c ! 267: l a. ! 268: Name Meaning ! 269: _ ! 270: # Previous file read ! 271: % Your system mailbox ! 272: %name \fIName\fP's system mailbox ! 273: & Your ~/mbox file ! 274: +folder A file in your folder directory ! 275: .TE ! 276: .)b ! 277: .ip \fBfrom\fP ! 278: The ! 279: .b from ! 280: command takes a list of messages and prints out the header lines for each one; ! 281: hence ! 282: .(l ! 283: from joe ! 284: .)l ! 285: is the easy way to display all the message headers from \*(lqjoe.\*(rq ! 286: .ip \fBheaders\fP ! 287: When you start up ! 288: .i Mail ! 289: to read your mail, it lists the message headers that you have. ! 290: These headers tell you who each message is from, when they were ! 291: sent, how many lines and characters each message is, and the ! 292: .q "Subject:" ! 293: header field of each message, if present. In addition, ! 294: .i Mail ! 295: tags the message header of each message that has been the object ! 296: of the ! 297: .b preserve ! 298: command with a ! 299: .q P. ! 300: Messages that have been ! 301: .b saved ! 302: or ! 303: .b written ! 304: are flagged with a ! 305: .q *. ! 306: Finally, ! 307: .b deleted ! 308: messages are not printed at all. If you wish to reprint the current ! 309: list of message headers, you can do so with the ! 310: .b headers ! 311: command. The ! 312: .b headers ! 313: command (and thus the initial header listing) ! 314: only lists the first so many message headers. ! 315: The number of headers listed depends on the speed of your ! 316: terminal. ! 317: This can be overridden by specifying the number of headers you ! 318: want with the ! 319: .i window ! 320: option. ! 321: .i Mail ! 322: maintains a notion of the current ! 323: .q window ! 324: into your messages for the purposes of printing headers. ! 325: Use the ! 326: .b z ! 327: command to move forward and back a window. ! 328: You can move ! 329: .i Mail's ! 330: notion of the current window directly to a particular message by ! 331: using, for example, ! 332: .(l ! 333: headers 40 ! 334: .)l ! 335: to move ! 336: .i Mail's ! 337: attention to the messages around message 40. The ! 338: .b headers ! 339: command can be abbreviated to ! 340: .b h . ! 341: .ip \fBhelp\fP ! 342: Print a brief and usually out of date help message about the commands ! 343: in ! 344: .i Mail . ! 345: Refer to this manual instead. ! 346: .ip \fBhold\fP ! 347: Arrange to hold a list of messages in the system mailbox, instead ! 348: of moving them to the file ! 349: .i mbox ! 350: in your home directory. If you set the binary option ! 351: .i hold , ! 352: this will happen by default. ! 353: .ip \fBif\fP ! 354: Commands in your ! 355: .q .mailrc ! 356: file can be executed conditionally depending on whether you are ! 357: sending or receiving mail with the ! 358: .b if ! 359: command. For example, you can do: ! 360: .(l ! 361: if receive ! 362: \fIcommands\fP... ! 363: endif ! 364: .)l ! 365: An ! 366: .b else ! 367: form is also available: ! 368: .(l ! 369: if send ! 370: \fIcommands\fP... ! 371: else ! 372: \fIcommands\fP... ! 373: endif ! 374: .)l ! 375: Note that the only allowed conditions are ! 376: .b receive ! 377: and ! 378: .b send . ! 379: .ip \fBignore\fP ! 380: Ignore a list of headers. ! 381: If you use ! 382: .b p ! 383: to print messages, ! 384: these headers ! 385: will not ! 386: be printed. ! 387: If you use ! 388: .b P , ! 389: the headers ! 390: will be printed. ! 391: .ip \fBmail\fP ! 392: Send mail to one or more people. If you have the ! 393: .i ask ! 394: option set, ! 395: .i Mail ! 396: will prompt you for a subject to your message. Then you ! 397: can type in your message, using tilde escapes as described in ! 398: section 4 to edit, print, or modify your message. To signal your ! 399: satisfaction with the message and send it, type control-d at the ! 400: beginning of a line, or a . alone on a line if you set the option ! 401: .i dot . ! 402: To abort the message, type two interrupt characters (\s-2RUBOUT\s0 ! 403: by default) in a row or use the ! 404: .b ~q ! 405: escape. ! 406: .ip \fBmbox\fP ! 407: Indicate that a list of messages be sent to ! 408: .i mbox ! 409: in your home directory when you quit. This is the default ! 410: action for messages if you do ! 411: .i not ! 412: have the ! 413: .i hold ! 414: option set. ! 415: .ip \fBnext\fP ! 416: The ! 417: .b next ! 418: command goes to the next message and types it. If given a message list, ! 419: .b next ! 420: goes to the first such message and types it. Thus, ! 421: .(l ! 422: next root ! 423: .)l ! 424: goes to the next message sent by ! 425: .q root ! 426: and types it. The ! 427: .b next ! 428: command can be abbreviated to simply a newline, which means that one ! 429: can go to and type a message by simply giving its message number or ! 430: one of the magic characters ! 431: .q "\(ua" ! 432: .q "." ! 433: or ! 434: .q "$". ! 435: Thus, ! 436: .(l ! 437: \&. ! 438: .)l ! 439: prints the current message and ! 440: .(l ! 441: 4 ! 442: .)l ! 443: prints message 4, as described previously. ! 444: .ip \fBpreserve\fP ! 445: Same as ! 446: .b hold . ! 447: Cause a list of messages to be held in your system mailbox when you quit. ! 448: .ip \fBquit\fP ! 449: Leave ! 450: .i Mail ! 451: and update the file, folder, or system mailbox your were reading. ! 452: Messages that you have examined are marked as ! 453: .q read ! 454: and messages that existed when you started are marked as ! 455: .q old. ! 456: If you were editing your system mailbox and ! 457: if you have set the binary option ! 458: .i hold , ! 459: all messages which have not been deleted, saved, or mboxed ! 460: will be retained in your system mailbox. ! 461: If you were editing your system mailbox and ! 462: you did ! 463: .i not ! 464: have ! 465: .i hold ! 466: set, all messages which have not been deleted, saved, or preserved ! 467: will be moved to the file ! 468: .i mbox ! 469: in your home directory. ! 470: .ip \fBreply\fP ! 471: Frame a reply to a single message. ! 472: The reply will be sent to the ! 473: person who sent you the message to which you are replying, plus all ! 474: the people who received the original message, except you. You can ! 475: add people using the ! 476: .b ~t ! 477: and ! 478: .b ~c ! 479: tilde escapes. The subject in your reply is formed by prefacing the ! 480: subject in the original message with ! 481: .q "Re:" ! 482: unless it already began thus. ! 483: If the original message included a ! 484: .q "reply-to" ! 485: header field, the reply will go ! 486: .i only ! 487: to the recipient named by ! 488: .q "reply-to." ! 489: You type in your message using the same conventions available to you ! 490: through the ! 491: .b mail ! 492: command. ! 493: .ip \fBsave\fP ! 494: It is often useful to be able to save messages on related topics ! 495: in a file. The ! 496: .b save ! 497: command gives you ability to do this. The ! 498: .b save ! 499: command takes as argument a lit of message numbers, followed by ! 500: the name of the file on which to save the messages. The messages ! 501: are appended to the named file, thus allowing one to keep several ! 502: messages in the file, stored in the order they were put there. ! 503: The ! 504: .b save ! 505: command can be abbreviated to ! 506: .b s . ! 507: An example of the ! 508: .b save ! 509: command relative to our running example is: ! 510: .(l ! 511: s 1 2 tuitionmail ! 512: .)l ! 513: .b Saved ! 514: messages are not automatically saved in ! 515: .i mbox ! 516: at quit time, nor are they selected by the ! 517: .b next ! 518: command described above, unless explicitly specified. ! 519: .ip \fBset\fP ! 520: Set an option or give an option a value. Used to customize ! 521: .i Mail . ! 522: Section 5.3 contains a list of the options. Options can be ! 523: .i binary , ! 524: in which case they are ! 525: .i on ! 526: or ! 527: .i off , ! 528: or ! 529: .i valued . ! 530: To set a binary option ! 531: .i option ! 532: .i on , ! 533: do ! 534: .(l ! 535: set option ! 536: .)l ! 537: To give the valued option ! 538: .i option ! 539: the value ! 540: .i value , ! 541: do ! 542: .(l ! 543: set option=value ! 544: .)l ! 545: Several options can be specified in a single ! 546: .b set ! 547: command. ! 548: .ip \fBshell\fP ! 549: The ! 550: .b shell ! 551: command allows you to ! 552: escape to the shell. ! 553: .b Shell ! 554: invokes an interactive shell and allows you to type commands to it. ! 555: When you leave the shell, you will return to ! 556: .i Mail . ! 557: The shell used is a default assumed by ! 558: .i Mail ; ! 559: you can override this default by setting the valued option ! 560: .q SHELL, ! 561: eg: ! 562: .(l ! 563: set SHELL=/bin/csh ! 564: .)l ! 565: .ip \fBsource\fP ! 566: The ! 567: .b source ! 568: command reads ! 569: .i Mail ! 570: commands from a file. It is useful when you are trying to fix your ! 571: .q .mailrc ! 572: file and you need to re-read it. ! 573: .ip \fBtop\fP ! 574: The ! 575: .b top ! 576: command takes a message list and prints the first five lines ! 577: of each addressed message. It may be abbreviated to ! 578: .b to . ! 579: If you wish, you can change the number of lines that ! 580: .b top ! 581: prints out by setting the valued option ! 582: .q "toplines." ! 583: On a CRT terminal, ! 584: .(l ! 585: set toplines=10 ! 586: .)l ! 587: might be preferred. ! 588: .ip \fBtype\fP ! 589: Print a list of messages on your terminal. If you have set the ! 590: option ! 591: .i crt ! 592: to a number and the total number of lines in the messages you are ! 593: printing exceed that specified by ! 594: .i crt , ! 595: the messages will be printed by a terminal paging program such as ! 596: .i more . ! 597: .ip \fBundelete\fP ! 598: The ! 599: .b undelete ! 600: command causes a message that had been deleted previously to regain ! 601: its initial status. Only messages that have been deleted may be ! 602: undeleted. This command may be abbreviated to ! 603: .b u . ! 604: .ip \fBunset\fP ! 605: Reverse the action of setting a binary or valued option. ! 606: .ip \fBvisual\fP ! 607: It is often useful to be able to invoke one of two editors, ! 608: based on the type of terminal one is using. To invoke ! 609: a display oriented editor, you can use the ! 610: .b visual ! 611: command. The operation of the ! 612: .b visual ! 613: command is otherwise identical to that of the ! 614: .b edit ! 615: command. ! 616: .ne 2v+\n(psu ! 617: .sp \n(psu ! 618: Both the ! 619: .b edit ! 620: and ! 621: .b visual ! 622: commands assume some default text editors. These default editors ! 623: can be overridden by the valued options ! 624: .q EDITOR ! 625: and ! 626: .q VISUAL ! 627: for the standard and screen editors. You might want to do: ! 628: .(l ! 629: set EDITOR=/usr/ucb/ex VISUAL=/usr/ucb/vi ! 630: .)l ! 631: .ip \fBwrite\fP ! 632: The ! 633: .b save ! 634: command always writes the entire message, including the headers, ! 635: into the file. If you want to write just the message itself, you ! 636: can use the ! 637: .b write ! 638: command. The ! 639: .b write ! 640: command has the same syntax as the ! 641: .b save ! 642: command, and can be abbreviated to simply ! 643: .b w . ! 644: Thus, we could write the second message by doing: ! 645: .(l ! 646: w 2 file.c ! 647: .)l ! 648: As suggested by this example, the ! 649: .b write ! 650: command is useful for such tasks as sending and receiving ! 651: source program text over the message system. ! 652: .ip \fBz\fP ! 653: .i Mail ! 654: presents message headers in windowfuls as described under ! 655: the ! 656: .b headers ! 657: command. ! 658: You can move ! 659: .i Mail's ! 660: attention forward to the next window by giving the ! 661: .(l ! 662: z+ ! 663: .)l ! 664: command. Analogously, you can move to the previous window with: ! 665: .(l ! 666: z\- ! 667: .)l ! 668: .sh 2 "Custom options" ! 669: .pp ! 670: Throughout this manual, we have seen examples of binary and valued options. ! 671: This section describes each of the options in alphabetical order, including ! 672: some that you have not seen yet. ! 673: To avoid confusion, please note that the options are either ! 674: all lower case letters or all upper case letters. When I start a sentence ! 675: such as: ! 676: .q "Ask" ! 677: causes ! 678: .i Mail ! 679: to prompt you for a subject header, ! 680: I am only capitalizing ! 681: .q ask ! 682: as a courtesy to English. ! 683: .ip \fBEDITOR\fP ! 684: The valued option ! 685: .q EDITOR ! 686: defines the pathname of the text editor to be used in the ! 687: .b edit ! 688: command and ~e. If not defined, a standard editor is used. ! 689: .ip \fBSHELL\fP ! 690: The valued option ! 691: .q SHELL ! 692: gives the path name of your shell. This shell is used for the ! 693: .b ! ! 694: command and ~! escape. In addition, this shell expands ! 695: file names with shell metacharacters like * and ? in them. ! 696: .ip \fBVISUAL\fP ! 697: The valued option ! 698: .q VISUAL ! 699: defines the pathname of your screen editor for use in the ! 700: .b visual ! 701: command ! 702: and ~v escape. A standard screen editor is used if you do not define one. ! 703: .ip \fBappend\fP ! 704: The ! 705: .q append ! 706: option is binary and ! 707: causes messages saved in ! 708: .i mbox ! 709: to be appended to the end rather than prepended. ! 710: Normally, ! 711: .i Mail will put messages in ! 712: .i mbox ! 713: in the same order that the system puts messages in your system mailbox. ! 714: By setting ! 715: .q append, ! 716: you are requesting that ! 717: .i mbox ! 718: be appended to regardless. It is in any event quicker to append. ! 719: .ip \fBask\fP ! 720: .q "Ask" ! 721: is a binary option which ! 722: causes ! 723: .i Mail ! 724: to prompt you for the subject of each message you send. ! 725: If you respond with simply a newline, no subject field will be sent. ! 726: .ip \fBaskcc\fP ! 727: .q Askcc ! 728: is a binary option which ! 729: causes you to be prompted for additional carbon copy recipients at the ! 730: end of each message. Responding with a newline shows your ! 731: satisfaction with the current list. ! 732: .ip \fBautoprint\fP ! 733: .q Autoprint ! 734: is a binary option which ! 735: causes the ! 736: .b delete ! 737: command to behave like ! 738: .b dp ! 739: \*- thus, after deleting a message, the next one will be typed ! 740: automatically. This is useful to quickly scanning and deleting ! 741: messages in your mailbox. ! 742: .ip \fBdot\fP ! 743: .q Dot ! 744: is a binary option which, if set, causes ! 745: .i Mail ! 746: to interpret a period alone on a line as the terminator ! 747: of a message you are sending. ! 748: .ip \fBescape\fP ! 749: To allow you to change the escape character used when sending ! 750: mail, you can set the valued option ! 751: .q escape. ! 752: Only the first character of the ! 753: .q escape ! 754: option is used, and it must be doubled if it is to appear as ! 755: the first character of a line of your message. If you change your escape ! 756: character, then ~ loses all its special meaning, and need no longer be doubled ! 757: at the beginning of a line. ! 758: .ip \fBfolder\fP ! 759: The name of the directory to use for storing folders of messages. ! 760: If this name begins with a `/' ! 761: .i Mail ! 762: considers it to be an absolute pathname; otherwise, the folder directory ! 763: is found relative to your home directory. ! 764: .ip \fBignore\fP ! 765: The binary option ! 766: .q ignore ! 767: causes \s-2RUBOUT\s0 characters from your terminal to be ignored and echoed ! 768: as @'s while you are sending mail. \s-2RUBOUT\s0 characters retain their ! 769: original meaning in ! 770: .i Mail ! 771: command mode. ! 772: Setting the ! 773: .q ignore ! 774: option is equivalent to supplying the ! 775: .b \-i ! 776: flag on the command line as described in section 2. ! 777: .ip \fBignoreeof\fP ! 778: An option related to ! 779: .q dot ! 780: is ! 781: .q ignoreeof ! 782: which makes ! 783: .i Mail ! 784: refuse to accept a control\-d as the end of a message. ! 785: .q Ignoreeof ! 786: also applies to ! 787: .i Mail ! 788: command mode. ! 789: .ip \fBkeep\fP ! 790: The ! 791: .q keep ! 792: option causes ! 793: .i Mail ! 794: to truncate your system mailbox instead of deleting it when it ! 795: is empty. This is useful if you elect to protect your mailbox, which ! 796: you would do with the shell command: ! 797: .(l ! 798: chmod 600 /usr/spool/mail/yourname ! 799: .)l ! 800: where ! 801: .i yourname ! 802: is your login name. If you do not do this, anyone can probably read ! 803: your mail, although people usually don't. ! 804: .ip \fBkeepsave\fP ! 805: When you ! 806: .b save ! 807: a message, ! 808: .i Mail ! 809: usually discards it when you ! 810: .b quit . ! 811: To retain all saved messages, set the ! 812: .q keepsave ! 813: option. ! 814: .ip \fBmetoo\fP ! 815: When sending mail to an alias, ! 816: .i Mail ! 817: makes sure that if you are included in the alias, that mail will not ! 818: be sent to you. This is useful if a single alias is being used by ! 819: all members of the group. If however, you wish to receive a copy of ! 820: all the messages you send to the alias, you can set the binary option ! 821: .q metoo. ! 822: .ip \fBnosave\fP ! 823: Normally, ! 824: when you abort a message with two \s-2RUBOUTs\s0, ! 825: .i Mail ! 826: copies the partial letter to the file ! 827: .q dead.letter ! 828: in your home directory. Setting the binary option ! 829: .q nosave ! 830: prevents this. ! 831: .ip \fBquiet\fP ! 832: The binary option ! 833: .q quiet ! 834: suppresses the printing of the version when ! 835: .i Mail ! 836: is first invoked, ! 837: as well as printing the for example ! 838: .q "Message 4:" ! 839: from the ! 840: .b type ! 841: command. ! 842: .ip \fBrecord\fP ! 843: If you love to keep records, then the ! 844: valued option ! 845: .q record ! 846: can be set to the name of a file to save your outgoing mail. ! 847: Each new message you send is appended to the end of the file. ! 848: .ip \fBscreen\fP ! 849: When ! 850: .i Mail ! 851: initially prints the message headers, it determines the number to ! 852: print by looking at the speed of your terminal. The faster your ! 853: terminal, the more it prints. ! 854: The valued option ! 855: .q screen ! 856: overrides this calculation and ! 857: specifies how many message headers you want printed. ! 858: This number is also used for scrolling with the ! 859: .b z ! 860: command. ! 861: .ip \fBsendmail\fP ! 862: To alternate delivery system, set the ! 863: .q sendmail ! 864: option to the full pathname of the program to use. Note: this is not ! 865: for everyone! Most people should use the default delivery system. ! 866: .ip \fBtoplines\fP ! 867: The valued option ! 868: .q toplines ! 869: defines the number of lines that the ! 870: .q top ! 871: command will print out instead of the default five lines.
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