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NAME
Mail - view mail in acme
SYNOPSIS
Mail [ -OsT ] [ -m maildir ] [ -f format ] [ -o outbox ]
DESCRIPTION
Mail edits a mailbox in an acme(1) environment. The default
mailbox is /mail/fs/mbox. Mail shows 3 views: The list
view, the message view, and the composition view.
At startup, Mail takes the following options:
-T Disable threading
-O Disable writing to outbox
-s Accept sendmail plumb messages. By default, only the
Mail instance viewing /mail/fs/mbox will accept plumb
messages.
-m maildir
Open the maildir maildir instead of the default
-f format
Define the format of individual messages in the list
view (see "Format strings" below).
-o outbox
Save a copy of outgoing messages to the mailbox outbox,
instead of discarding them after they're enqueued.
Mail presents and acme interface for a upas/fs mailbox.
When started, a mailbox, by default /mail/fs/mbox, is pre-
sented. In the message list, the tag bar commands typically
affect the selected messsage. In the message and composi-
tion views, they typically apply to the current message.
The following text commands are recognized by the message
list:
Put Flush pending changes back to upasfs(4).
Delmesg, Undelmesg
Flags a message for deletion on the next Put invoca-
tion.
Next Select the next unread message in the mailbox.
Mark [±flags]
Add or remove message flags. The flags recognized are
listed in upasfs(4)
Redraw
Redraws the contents of the mailbox.
The following text commands are recognized by the message
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Reply [all]
Replies to a message, quoting it. If all is specified,
reply to all addresses on the message.
Delmesg, Undelmesg
As with the message view, but applied to the open mes-
sage.
Mark As with the message view, but applied to the open mes-
sage.
The following text commands are recognized by the composi-
tion window:
Post Sends the message currently being composed.
Format strings
The formatting of messages in the list view is controlled by
the format string defined through the -f flag. The format
string is composed of multiple directives: plain characters,
which are displayed unchanged; indentation directives, which
allows spacing based on thread depth; and messages direc-
tives, which display message fields.
Directives have the following format:
% [flags] [width] verb
width limits the number of characters displayed. If width
is negative, text is aligned right instead of left.
The supported flags are:
> Insert indentation into the start of the field. This
does not increase the width of the field.
Messages directives are:
s Subject
f From field
F From field including sender's name
t To field
c Cc field
r Reply-to field
Indentation directives are:
i Adds spacing depending on message depth in thread but
limited to a single level. If width is not specified,
adds a tabulation otherwise width specifies the number
of spaces to display.
I Similar to i but not limited to a single level.
Two special directives are also available:
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Text within the brackets is displayed if the message is
not the toplevel message of a thread.
{...}
Text within the braces is used as the format string for
tmfmt(2).
The default format string is "%>48s\t<%f>"
FILES
SEE ALSO
mail(1), aliasmail(8), filter(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1),
nedmail(1), upasfs(4), smtp(8), faces(1), rewrite(6)
BUGS
Probably.
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