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