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Äp | Print the message being entered. |
Äq | Quit (terminate) input mode by simulating an interrupt. If the body of the message is |
| not null, the partial message is saved in dead.letter . See the description of the |
| DEAD environment variable below for a description of this ®le. |
ÄR name ... | Add name to the |
Är filename |
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Ä< filename | Read in the speci®ed ®le. If the argument begins with an exclamation point ( ! ), the |
Ä<! command | |
| rest of the string is assumed to be an arbitrary shell command and is executed, with |
| the standard output inserted into the message. |
Äs string ... | Set the subject line to string. |
Ät name ... | Add the given names to the To list. |
Äv | Invoke a preferred screen editor on the partial message. Also see the VISUAL |
| environment variable description below. |
Äw filename | Write the partial message onto the given ®le, without the header. |
Äx | Exit as with Äq except the message is not saved in dead.letter. |
Ä command | Pipe the body of the message through the given command. If command returns a suc- |
| cessful exit status, the output of the command replaces the message. |
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
The following variables are internal mailx program variables. They can be imported from the execution environment or set by the set command at any time. The unset command can be used to erase variables.
allnet | All network names whose login names match are treated as identical. This causes the | |
| msglist message speci®cations to behave similarly. Default is noallnet. See also | |
| the alternates command and the metoo variable. | |
append | Upon termination, append messages to the end of the mbox ®le instead of inserting | |
| them at the beginning of the ®le. Default is | noappend. |
askbcc | Prompt for the Bcc list after the message is entered. Default is noaskbcc. | |
askcc | Prompt for the Cc list after the message is entered. Default is noaskcc. | |
asksub | Prompt for a subject if it is not speci®ed on the command line with the | |
| Enabled by default. |
|
autoprint | Enable automatic printing of messages after delete and undelete commands. Default | |
| is noautoprint . |
|
bang | Enable | |
| as in vi(1). Default is nobang. |
|
charset=charset | Set the default | |
| value of LANG to look up the system default for the user's locale. If that is unsuccess- | |
| ful, the default value of |
|
cmd=command | Set the default command for the pipe command. No default value. | |
conv=conversion | Convert UUCP addresses to the speci®ed address style. The only valid conversion | |
| currently supported is internet, which requires a mail delivery program conforming to | |
| the RFC822 standard for electronic mail addressing. Conversion is disabled by default. | |
| See also sendmail and the | |
crt=number | Pipe messages having more than number lines through the command speci®ed by the | |
| value of the PAGER variable pg by default (see pg(1)). Disabled by default. | |
DEAD=filename | The name of the ®le in which to save partial letters in case of untimely interrupt or | |
| delivery errors. Default is $HOME/dead.letter. | |
debug | Enable verbose diagnostics for debugging. | Messages are not delivered. Default is |
| nodebug. |
|
dot | When processing input from a terminal, interpret an ASCII period character on a line | |
| by itself as |
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