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authorjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1998-01-02 16:44:13 +0000
committerjoerg <joerg@FreeBSD.org>1998-01-02 16:44:13 +0000
commit00289accda875898bb2dc93c3681d29d455634b9 (patch)
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Teach boring old mail(1) about the use of the REPLYTO environment
variable which is de-facto standard for MUAs. Teach bomail to generate an in-reply-to header so threading MUAs and mail->news gateways won't lose context. While i was at it, removed two gratuitous standard violations for functions starting with an underscore.
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diff --git a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1 b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
index 61c4dad..90fee5d 100644
--- a/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
+++ b/usr.bin/mail/mail.1
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" @(#)mail.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 12/30/93
-.\" $Id: mail.1,v 1.12 1997/02/22 19:56:06 peter Exp $
+.\" $Id: mail.1,v 1.13 1997/11/01 00:56:15 jraynard Exp $
.\"
.Dd December 30, 1993
.Dt MAIL 1
@@ -752,6 +752,10 @@ in your home directory if
is set.
.It Ic \&~r Ns Ar filename
Read the named file into the message.
+.It Ic \&~R Ns Ar string
+Use
+.Ar string
+as the Reply-To field.
.It Ic \&~s Ns Ar string
Cause the named string to become the current subject field.
.It Ic \&~\&t Ns Ar name ...
@@ -924,6 +928,9 @@ variable is set.
The default paginator
.Xr more 1
is used if this option is not defined.
+.It Ev REPLYTO
+If set, will be used to initialize the Reply-To field for outgoing
+messages.
.It Ev SHELL
Pathname of the shell to use in the
.Ic \&!
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