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authorRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-20 19:21:22 +0000
committerRuslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>2000-11-20 19:21:22 +0000
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mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/head/; revision=68963
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mail/mail.1')
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diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index f9ce04ede488..bef3d40c6506 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -39,18 +39,18 @@
.Nm mail
.Nd send and receive mail
.Sh SYNOPSIS
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
.Op Fl iInv
.Op Fl s Ar subject
.Op Fl c Ar cc-addr
.Op Fl b Ar bcc-addr
.Ar to-addr ...
.Op \&- Ar sendmail-option ...
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
.Op Fl iInNv
.Fl f
.Op Ar name
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
.Op Fl iInNv
.Op Fl u Ar user
.Sh INTRODUCTION
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ delivery are displayed on the user's terminal.
Ignore tty interrupt signals.
This is
particularly useful when using
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
on noisy phone lines.
.It Fl I
Forces mail to run in interactive mode even when
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ Read in the contents of your
(or the specified file)
for processing; when you
.Ar quit ,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
writes undeleted messages back to this file.
.It Fl u
Is equivalent to:
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ new message is to be sent, or whether an existing mailbox is to
be read.
.Ss Sending mail
To send a message to one or more people,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
can be invoked with arguments which are the names of people to
whom the mail will be sent.
You are then expected to type in
@@ -143,12 +143,12 @@ at the beginning of a line.
The section below
.Ar Replying to or originating mail ,
describes some features of
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
available to help you compose your letter.
.Pp
.Ss Reading mail
In normal usage
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
is given no arguments and checks your mail out of the
post office, then
prints out a one line header of each message found.
@@ -175,13 +175,13 @@ the message or
.Pq Ic r
to it.
Deletion causes the
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
program to forget about the message.
This is not irreversible; the message can be
.Ic undeleted
.Pq Ic u
by giving its number, or the
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
session can be aborted by giving the
.Ic exit
.Pq Ic x
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ person who it was from.
Text you then type in, up to an end-of-file,
defines the contents of the message.
While you are composing a message,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
treats lines beginning with the character
.Ql Ic \&~
specially.
@@ -239,7 +239,7 @@ are given in the summary below.)
.Pp
.Ss Ending a mail processing session.
You can end a
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
session with the
.Ic quit
.Pq Ic q
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ in your home directory.
The current list of such aliases can be displayed with the
.Ic alias
command in
-.Nm mail .
+.Nm .
System wide distribution lists can be created by editing
.Pa /etc/mail/aliases ,
see
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ command's requirements is used.
If there are no messages forward of
the current message, the search proceeds backwards, and if there are no
good messages at all,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
types
.Dq Li No applicable messages
and
@@ -372,12 +372,12 @@ The
.Ic alternates
command is useful if you have accounts on several machines.
It can be used to inform
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
that the listed addresses are really you.
When you
.Ic reply
to messages,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
will not send a copy of the message to any of the addresses
listed on the
.Ic alternates
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ nor will they be available for most other commands.
.Ic dt )
Deletes the current message and prints the next message.
If there is no next message,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
says
.Dq Li "at EOF" .
.It Ic edit
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ presents message headers in windowfuls as described under the
.Ic headers
command.
You can move
-.Nm mail Ns 's
+.Nm Ns 's
attention forward to the next window with the
.Ic \&z
command.
@@ -829,7 +829,7 @@ This should always be set (preferably in one of the system-wide
files).
.It Ar ask
Causes
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
to prompt you for the subject of each message you send.
If
you respond with simply a newline, no subject field will be sent.
@@ -851,14 +851,14 @@ Setting the binary option
is the same as specifying
.Fl d
on the command line and causes
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
to output all sorts of information useful for debugging
-.Nm mail .
+.Nm .
.It Ar dot
The binary option
.Ar dot
causes
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
to interpret a period alone on a line as the terminator
of a message you are sending.
.It Ar hold
@@ -873,11 +873,11 @@ An option related to
is
.Ar ignoreeof
which makes
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
refuse to accept a control-d as the end of a message.
.Ar Ignoreeof
also applies to
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
command mode.
.It Ar metoo
Usually, when a group is expanded that contains the sender, the sender
@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ flag on the command line.
Normally, when you abort a message with two
.Tn RUBOUT
(erase or delete)
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
copies the partial letter to the file
.Dq Pa dead.letter
in your home directory.
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ use in the place of ~ to denote escapes.
The name of the directory to use for storing folders of
messages.
If this name begins with a `/',
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
considers it to be an absolute pathname; otherwise, the
folder directory is found relative to your home directory.
.It Ev MBOX
@@ -1067,7 +1067,7 @@ Most are
not useful to the general user.
.Pp
Usually,
-.Nm mail
+.Nm
is just a link to
.Nm Mail ,
which can be confusing.