mailx(1)

mailx(1)

EDITOR=command The command to run when the edit or

Äe command is used. Default is ed (see

ed(1)).

 

encoding=encoding

Set the default encoding to be used when 8-bit characters are present. Allowable values are quoted-printable, base64 and 8bit. The short-hand q-pis also acceptable for quoted-printable. The default value will be determined based upon the value of charset. A value of 8bit means not to encode.

escape=c

Substitute c for the Ä escape character.

 

folder=directory

The directory for saving standard mail ®les. User speci®ed ®le names beginning with

 

a plus (+) are expanded by preceding the ®le name with this directory name to obtain

 

the real ®le name. If directory does not start with a slash ( / ), $HOME is used as a

 

pre®x. There is no default for the folder variable. See also outfolder below.

header

Enable printing of the header summary when entering mailx. Enabled by default.

hold

Preserve all messages that are read in the system mailbox instead of putting them in

 

the standard mbox save ®le. Default is nohold.

 

ignore

Ignore interrupts while entering messages. Useful when communicating over noisy

 

dial-up lines. Default is noignore.

 

ignoreeof

Ignore end-of-®le during message input. Input must be terminated by a period ( . ) on

 

a line by itself or by the Ä. command. Default is noignoreeof . See also

dot

 

above.

 

keep

When the mailbox is empty, truncate it to zero length instead of removing it.

Dis-

 

abled by default.

 

keepsave

Keep messages that have been saved in other ®les in the system mailbox instead of

 

deleting them. Default is nokeepsave.

 

MBOX=filename

The name of the ®le to save messages which have been read. The xit command over-

 

rides this function, as does saving the message explicitly in another ®le. Default is

 

$HOME/mbox.

 

metoo

Usually, when a group (alias) containing the sender is expanded, the sender is

 

removed from the expansion. Setting this option causes the sender to be included in

 

the group. Default is nometoo.

 

mimeheader= value

To add or disable MIME header when sending mail. "value" can be 'yes' or 'no'.

LISTER=command The command (and options) to use when listing contents of the folder directory. The default is ls(1).

NOMETAMAIL= value

To disable the usage of metamail to read MIME messages, set the value to TRUE. By default the NOMETAMAIL variable is not set.

onehop

When responding to a message that was originally sent to several recipients, the other

 

recipient addresses are normally forced to be relative to the originating author's

 

machine for the response. This ¯ag disables alteration of the recipients' addresses,

 

improving ef®ciency in a network where all machines can send directly to all other

 

machines (i.e., one hop away).

 

outfolder

Cause the ®les used to record outgoing messages to be located in the directory

 

speci®ed by the

folder variable. Default is nooutfolder . See

folder above

 

and the Save, Copy, followup, and Followup commands.

 

page

Used with the pipe command to insert a form feed after each message sent through

 

the pipe. Default is nopage.

 

PAGER= command

The command to use as a ®lter for paginating output. This can also be used to specify

 

the pager command-line options (for example, set PAGER="more

-c"). Default

 

is pg (see pg(1)), but many users prefer more (see more(1)).

 

prompt= string

Set the command mode prompt to string. Default is ?.

 

 

 

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