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.TH NAIL 4
.SH NAME
Nail \- view mail in acme

.SH SYNOPSIS

Nail
[
.B -Ts
]
[
.B -f
.I maildir
]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
.B Nail
edits a mailbox in an
.IR acme (1)
environment.
The default mailbox is /mail/fs/mbox.
Nail shows 3 views:
The list view, the message view, and the composition view.

.PP
At startup,
.B Nail
takes the following options:
.PD 0
.TP
.B -T
Disable threading
.PD 0
.TP
.BI -f " maildir
Open the maildir
.I maildir
instead of the default
.I -s
Accept sendmail plumb messages. By default, only
the Nail instance viewing /mail/fs/mbox will
accept plumb messages.

.PP
Nail presents a typical acme interface. When started,
text commands are inserted into the tag bar. In the message
view, the commands typically apply to the selected messages.
In the message and composition views, they typically apply
to the current message.

.PP
The following text commands are recognized by the message
list:

.TP
.B Put
Flush pending chnages back to
.IR upasfs (4).
.PD 0
.TP
.B Delmesg, Undelmesg
Flags a message for deletion on the next
.I Put
invocation.
.PD 0
.TP
.B Next
Select the next unread message in the mailbox.
.PD 0
.TP
.B Mark [±flags]
Add or remove message flags. The flags recognized
are listed in
.IR upasfs (4)
.PD 0
.TP
.B Redraw
Redraws the contents of the mailbox.

.PP
The following text commands are recognized by the message
view:

.TP
.B [Q] Reply [all]
Replies to a message. If 'Q' is specified, quote the open message.
If all is specified, reply to all addresses on the message.
.PD 0
.TP
.B Delmesg, Undelmesg
As with the message view, but applied to the open message.
.PD 0
.TP
.B Mark
As with the message view, but applied to the open message.

.PP
The following text commands are recognized by the composition
window:

.TP
.B Post
Sends the message currently being composed.

.SH FILES

.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)

.SH BUGS
Probably.