Mail interactive message processing system.
| -B |
Do not buffer standard input or standard output. |
| -d |
Turn on debugging output. (Neither particularly interesting nor recommended.) |
| -e |
Test for the presence of mail. mailx prints
nothing and exits with a successful return code if there is mail to read. |
| -F |
Record the message in a file named after the first recipient. Overrides the record variable, if set. |
| -H |
Print header summary only. |
| -i |
Ignore interrupts. |
| -I |
Include the newsgroup and article-id header lines when printing mail messages. This option requires the -f option to be specified. |
| -m |
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| -n |
Do not initialize from the system default mailx.rc or Mail.rc file. |
| -N |
Do not print initial header summary. |
| -U |
Convert UUCP-style addresses to Internet
standards. Overrides the conv environment variable. |
| -R |
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| -t |
Scan the input for To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields. Any recipients on the command line will be ignored. |
| -v |
Pass the -v flag to sendmail. |
| -V |
Print the mailx version number and exit. |
| -~ |
Interpret tilde escapes in the input even if not reading from a tty. |
| -b bcc |
Set the blind carbon copy list to bcc. bcc should be enclosed in quotes if it contains more than one
name. |
| -c cc |
Set the carbon copy list to cc. cc should be enclosed in quotes if it contains more than one name. |
| -h number |
The number of network "hops" made so far. This is provided for network software to avoid infinite delivery loops. This option and its argument are passed to the delivery program. |
| -r address |
Use address as the return address when invoking the delivery program. All tilde commands are
disabled. This option and its argument is passed to the delivery program. |
| -s subject |
Set the Subject header field to subject. subject should be enclosed in quotes if it contains
embedded white space. |
| recipient |
The recipient of the e-mail. |
| -f [file] |
Read messages from file instead of mailbox. If no file is specified, the mbox is used. |
| -f [+folder] |
Use the file folder in the folder directory (same as the
fold er command). The name of this
directory is listed in the folder variable. |
| -T file |
Message-id and article-id header lines are recorded in file after the message is read. This
option also sets the -I option. |
| -u user |
Read user's mailbox. This is only effective if user's mailbox is not read protected. |
Additional information about sending and reading
e-mail in a telnet session, SSH session, and/or at the command line
can be found on document CH000817.
