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.TH NEDMAIL 1 .SH NAME nedmail \- reading mail .SH SYNOPSIS .B upas/nedmail [ .B -nr ] [ .B -f .I mailfile ] [ .B -s .I mailfile ] .PP .B upas/nedmail .B -c .I dir .SH DESCRIPTION .I Nedmail edits a mailbox. The default mailbox is .BI /mail/box/ username /mbox\f1. The .B -f command line option specifies an alternate mailbox. Unrooted path names are interpreted relative to .BI /mail/box/ username. If the .I mailfile argument is omitted, the name defaults to .BR stored . .PP The options are: .TF "-f mailfile" .TP .BI -c " dir Create a mailbox. If .I dir is specified, the new mailbox is created in .BI /mail/box/ username / dir /mbox\f1. Otherwise, the default mailbox is created. .TP .B -r Reverse: show messages in first-in, first-out order; the default is last-in, first-out. .TP .B -n Make the message numbers the same as the file names in the mail box directory. This implies the .B -r option. .TP .BI -f " mailfile" Read messages from the specified file (see above) instead of the default mailbox. .TP .BI -s " mailfile" Read a single message file .IR mailfile , as produced by .IR fs , and treat it as an entire mailbox. This is provided for use in plumbing rules; see .IR faces (1). .PD .PP .I Nedmail starts by reading the mail box, printing out the number of messages, and then prompting for commands from standard input. Commands, as in .IR ed (1), are of the form .RI `[ range ] .I command .RI [ arguments ]'. The command is applied to each message in the (optional) range. .PP The address range can be: .TP 1.4i .I address to indicate a single message header .PD 0 .TP .IB address , address to indicate a range of contiguous message headers .TP .BI g/ expression / to indicate all messages whose headers match the regular .IR expression . .TP .BI g% expression % to indicate all messages whose contents match the regular .IR expression . .PD .PP The addresses can be: .TP 1.4i .I number to indicate a particular message .PD 0 .TP .IB address . number to indicate a subpart of a particular message .TP .BI / expression / to indicate the next message whose header matches .I expression .TP .BI % expression % to indicate the next message whose contents match expression .TP .I "empty or . to indicate the current message .TP .BI - address to indicate backwards search or movement .PD .PP Since messages in MIME are hierarchical structures, in .I nedmail all the subparts are individually addressable. For example if message 2 contains 3 attachments, the attachments are numbered 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3. .PP The commands are: .TP 1.1i .BI a " args Reply to all addresses in the .BR To: , .BR From: , and .BR Cc: header lines. .I Marshal is used to format the reply and any arguments the user specifies are added to the command line to .I marshal before the recipient. The possibility of making a fool of yourself is very high with this command. .PD 0 .TP .BI A " args Like .B a but with the message appended to the reply. .TP .B b Print the headers for the next ten messages. .TP .B d Mark message to be deleted upon exiting .IR nedmail . .TP .B f Append the message to the file .BI /mail/box/ username / sendername where .I sendername is the account name of the sender. .TP .B h Print the disposition, size in characters, reception time, sender, and subject of the message. .TP .B H Print the MIME structure of the message. .TP .B help Print a summary of the commands. .TP .BI m " person ... Forward the message as a mime attachment to the named .IR persons . .TP .BI M " person ... Like .B m but allow the user to type in text to be included with the forwarded message. .TP .B p Print message. An interrupt stops the printing. .TP .BI r " args Reply to the sender of the message. .I Marshal is used to format the reply. If any optional .I args are specified, they are added to the command line to .I marshal before the recipient's address. .TP .BI R " args Like .B r but with the original message included as an attachment. .TP .B rf Like .B r but append the message and the reply to the file .BI /mail/box/ username / sendername where .I sendername is the account name of the sender. .TP .B Rf Like .B R but append the message and the reply to the file .BI /mail/box/ username / sendername where .I sendername is the account name of the sender. .TP .BI s " mfile" Append the message to the specified mailbox. If .I mfile doesn't start with a `/', it is interpreted relative to the directory in which the mailbox resides. If .I mfile is a directory then the destination is a file in that directory. If the MIME header specifies a file name, that one is used. Otherwise, one is generated using .IR mktemp (2) and the string .BR att.XXXXXXXXXXX . .TP .B q Put undeleted mail back in the mailbox and stop. .TP EOT (control-D) Same as .BR q . .TP .BI w " file Same as .B s with the mail header line(s) stripped. This can be used to save binary mail bodies. .TP .B u Remove mark for deletion. .TP .B x Exit, without changing the mailbox file. .TP .B y Synchronize with the mail box. Any deleted messages are purged and any new messages read. This is equivalent to quitting nedmail and restarting. .TP .BI | command Run the .I command with the message body as standard input. .TP .BI || command Run the .I command with the whole message as standard input. .TP .BI ! command Escape to the shell to do .IR command . .TP .B \&= Print the number of the current message. .PD .PP Shell commands will have environment variable .B $% set to the full path of the current message. .PP Here's an example of a mail session that looks at a summary of the mail messages, saves away an html file added as an attachment to a message and then deletes the message: .LP .EX % mail 7 messages : ,h 1 H 2129 07/22 12:30 noone@madeup.net "Add Up To 2000 free miles" 2 504 07/22 11:43 jmk 3 H 784 07/20 09:05 presotto 4 822 07/11 09:23 xxx@yyy.net "You don't call, you don't write..." 5 193 07/06 16:55 presotto 6 529 06/01 19:42 jmk 7 798 09/02 2000 howard : 1H 1 multipart/mixed 2129 from=noone@madeup.net 1.1 text/plain 115 1.2 text/html 1705 filename=northwest.htm : 1.2w /tmp/northwest.html !saved in /tmp/northwest.html 1.2: d 1: q !1 message deleted % .EE .PP Notice that the delete of message 1.2 deleted the entire message and not just the attachment. .SH FILES .TF /mail/box/*/dead.letter .TP .B /mail/box/* mail directories .TP .B /mail/box/*/mbox mailbox files .TP .B /mail/box/*/forward forwarding address(es) .TP .B /mail/box/*/pipeto mail filter .TP .B /mail/box/*/L.reading mutual exclusion lock for multiple mbox readers .TP .B /mail/box/*/L.mbox mutual exclusion lock for altering mbox .SH SOURCE .B /sys/src/cmd/upas/ned .SH "SEE ALSO" .IR mail (1), .IR aliasmail (8), .IR filter (1), .IR marshal (1), .IR mlmgr (1), .IR nedmail (1), .IR upasfs (4), .IR smtp (8), .IR faces (1), .IR rewrite (6)