NEDMAIL(1) NEDMAIL(1)
NAME
nedmail - reading mail
SYNOPSIS
upas/nedmail [ -nr ] [ -f mailfile ] [ -s mailfile ]
upas/nedmail -c dir
DESCRIPTION
Nedmail edits a mailbox. The default mailbox is
/mail/box/username/mbox. The -f command line option speci-
fies an alternate mailbox. Unrooted path names are inter-
preted 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 pro-
duced 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.
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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, recep-
tion 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.
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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 desti-
nation 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 mes-
sages 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 stan-
dard 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
%
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Notice that the delete of message 1.2 deleted the entire
message and not just the attachment.
FILES
/mail/box/* mail directories
/mail/box/*/mbox mailbox files
/mail/box/*/forward forwarding address(es)
/mail/box/*/pipeto mail filter
/mail/box/*/L.reading mutual exclusion lock for multiple
mbox readers
/mail/box/*/L.mbox mutual exclusion lock for altering
mbox
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/upas/ned
SEE ALSO
mail(1), aliasmail(8), filter(1), marshal(1), mlmgr(1),
nedmail(1), upasfs(4), smtp(8), faces(1), rewrite(6)
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