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author | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-20 19:21:22 +0000 |
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committer | ru <ru@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-11-20 19:21:22 +0000 |
commit | 0d1334ca0c7f5a53195b38b126d726747949ce5d (patch) | |
tree | 399269f867eeb084bb6edf479f12b35526a9edb4 /usr.bin/mail/mail.1 | |
parent | 0100fd6e93e8e0203ec077685f3e68afea54de52 (diff) | |
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mdoc(7) police: use the new features of the Nm macro.
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/mail/mail.1')
-rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/mail/mail.1 | 54 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 27 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 index f9ce04e..bef3d40 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. |