Nedmail
edits a mailbox.
The default mailbox is
/mail/box/username/mbox.
The
-f
command line option specifies an alternate mailbox.
Unrooted path names are interpreted relative to
/mail/box/username.
If the
mailfile
argument is omitted, the name defaults to
stored.
The options are:
- -c dir
- Create a mailbox. If
dir
is specified, the new mailbox is created in
/mail/box/username/dir/mbox.
Otherwise, the default mailbox is created.
- -r
- Reverse: show messages in first-in, first-out order; the default is last-in, first-out.
- -n
- Make the message numbers the same as the file names in the mail
box directory. This implies the
-r
option.
- -f mailfile
- Read messages from the specified file (see above) instead of the default mailbox.
- -s mailfile
- Read a single message file
mailfile,
as produced by
fs,
and treat it as an entire mailbox.
This is provided for
use in plumbing rules; see
faces(1).
Nedmail
starts by reading the mail box, printing out the number
of messages, and then prompting for commands from standard input.
Commands, as in
ed(1),
are of the form
`[range]
command
[arguments]'.
The command is applied to each message in the (optional) range.
The address range can be:
- address
- to indicate a single message header
- address,address
- to indicate a range of contiguous message headers
- g/expression/
- to indicate all messages whose headers match the regular
expression.
- g%expression%
- to indicate all messages whose contents match the regular
expression.
The addresses can be:
- number
- to indicate a particular message
- address.number
- to indicate a subpart of a particular message
- /expression/
- to indicate the next message whose header matches
expression
- %expression%
- to indicate the next message whose contents match
expression
- empty or .
- to indicate the current message
- -address
- to indicate backwards search or movement
Since messages in MIME are hierarchical
structures, in
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.
The commands are:
- a args
- Reply to all addresses in the
To:,
From:,
and
Cc:
header lines.
Marshal
is used to format the reply and any arguments the
user specifies are added to the command line to
marshal
before the recipient.
The possibility of making a fool of yourself is very
high with this command.
- A args
- Like
a
but with the message
appended to the reply.
- b
- Print the headers for the next ten messages.
- d
- Mark message to be deleted upon exiting
nedmail.
- f
- Append the message to the file
/mail/box/username/sendername
where
sendername
is the account name of the sender.
- h
- Print the disposition, size in characters, reception time, sender,
and subject of the message.
- H
- Print the MIME structure of the message.
- help
- Print a summary of the commands.
- m person ...
- Forward the message as a mime attachment to the named
persons.
- M person ...
- Like
m
but allow the user to type in text to be included
with the forwarded message.
- p
- Print message. An interrupt stops the printing.
- r args
- Reply to the sender of the message.
Marshal
is used to format the reply.
If any optional
Args
are specified, they are added to the command line to
marshal
before the recipient's address.
- R args
- Like
r
but with the original message included as an attachment.
- rf
- Like
r
but append the message and the reply to the file
/mail/box/username/sendername
where
sendername
is the account name of the sender.
- Rf
- Like
R
but append the message and the reply to the file
/mail/box/username/sendername
where
sendername
is the account name of the sender.
- s mfile
- Append the message to the specified mailbox.
If
mfile
doesn't start with a `/', it is interpreted relative to the directory in which the mailbox resides.
If
mfile
is a directory then the destination is a file in that directry.
If the MIME header specifies a file name, that one is used.
Otherwise, one is generated using
mktemp(2)
and the string
att.XXXXXXXXXXX.
- q
- Put undeleted mail back in the mailbox and stop.
- EOT (control-D)
- Same as
q.
- w file
- Same as
s
with the mail header line(s) stripped. This can be used to
save binary mail bodies.
- u
- Remove mark for deletion.
- x
- Exit, without changing the mailbox file.
- y
- Synchronize with the mail box. Any deleted
messages are purged and any new messages read.
This is equivalent to quiting nedmail and restarting.
- |command
- Run the
command
with the message body as standard input.
- ||command
- Run the
command
with the whole message as standard input.
- !command
- Escape to the shell to do
command.
- =
- Print the number of the current message.
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:
% 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
%
Notice that the delete of message 1.2 deleted the entire message and
not just the attachment.