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31 .sh 1 "Command line options"
33 This section describes command line options for
35 and what they are used for.
37 Suppress the initial printing of headers.
39 Turn on debugging information. Not of general interest.
43 instead of your system mailbox. If
49 in your home directory.
51 Ignore tty interrupt signals. Useful on noisy phone lines, which
52 generate spurious RUBOUT or DELETE characters. It's usually
53 more effective to change your interrupt character to control\-c,
58 Inhibit reading of /etc/mail.rc. Not generally useful, since
59 /etc/mail.rc is usually empty.
61 Used for sending mail.
63 is used as the subject of the message being composed. If
65 contains blanks, you must surround it with quote marks.
69 mail instead of your own. Unwitting others often neglect to protect
70 their mailboxes, but discretion is advised. Essentially,
72 is a shorthand way of doing
73 .b "\-f /var/mail/user".
77 flag when invoking sendmail. This feature may also be enabled
78 by setting the the option "verbose".
80 The following command line flags are also recognized, but are
81 intended for use by programs invoking
89 fields of all messages that were either read or deleted.
93 program and should NOT be used for reading your mail.
95 Pass on hop count information.
97 will take the number, increment it, and pass it with
99 to the mail delivery system.
101 only has effect when sending mail and is used for network mail
104 Used for network mail forwarding: interpret
106 as the sender of the message. The
110 are simply sent along to the mail delivery system. Also,
112 will wait for the message to be sent and return the exit status.
113 Also restricts formatting of message.
119 which are for network mail forwarding, are not used in practice
120 since mail forwarding is now handled separately. They may